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Blix ; Moran of the Lady Letty ; Essays on authorship
Blix Moran of the Lady Letty Essays on authorship Author:Frank Norris Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Then at length he took a fresh penful of ink, squared his elbows, drew closer to the desk, and with a single swift spurt of the pen wrote the last line of his no... more »vel, dropping the pen upon the instant and pressing the blotter over the words as though setting a seal of approval upon the completed task. "There!" he muttered, between his teeth; "I've done for textit{you!" That same afternoon he read the last chapter to Blix, and she helped him to prepare the manuscript for expressage. She insisted that it should go off that very day, and herself wrote the directions upon the outside wrapper. Then the two went down together to the Wells Fargo office, and "In Defiance of Authority" was sent on its journey across the continent. "Now," she said, as they came out of the express office and stood for a moment upon the steps, "now there's nothing to do but wait for the Centennial Company. I do so hope we'll get their answer before I go away. They textit{ought to take it. It's just what they asked for. Don't you think they'll take it, Condy?" "Oh, bother that!" answered Condy. "I don't care whether they take it or not. How long now is it before you go, Blix ?" A Week passed; then another. The year was coming to a close. In ten days Blix would be gone. Letters had been received from Aunt Kihm, and also an exquisite black leather traveling-case, a present to her niece, full of cut-glass bottles, ebony-backed brushes, and shell combs. Blix was to leave on the second day of January. In the meanwhile she had been reading far into her first-year textbooks, underscoring and annotating, studying for hours upon such subjects as she did not understand, so that she might get hold of her work the readier when it came to class-room routine and lectures. Hers was a temperament admirably suite...« less