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It grieves me to give you so much trouble; but you must recollect that it was your own voluntary kindness, and not my importunity, that involves you in it. Very truly yours, The following letter is fragmentary, because of the demands of some autograph-hunter.
I should like to know, though, how you know. "'It is quite simple, said I. 'The timidity of the knock shows that my visitor is one of two classes of persons an autograph-hunter or a client, one of the two. You see I give you a chance to win. It may be an autograph-hunter, but I think it is a client.
Montagu Watson was notoriously a foe to the autograph-hunter. A genuine Montagu Watson was a prize in the autograph market. Dunstable was a man of action. When Mark, the boot-boy at Day's, carried his burden of letters to the post that evening, there nestled among them one addressed to M. Watson, Esq., The White House, Chesterton.
I should like to know, though, how you know. "'It is quite simple, said I. 'The timidity of the knock shows that my visitor is one of two classes of persons an autograph-hunter or a client, one of the two. You see I give you a chance to win. It may be an autograph-hunter, but I think it is a client.
There was silence after that, and Margaret looked out of the window, while her hand unconsciously played with the book on her knee, lifting the cover a little and letting it fall again and again. Suddenly she turned to Griggs once more and held the book out to him with a smile. 'I'm not an autograph-hunter, she said, 'but will you write something on the fly-leaf?
And yet he seems to persevere for 't is indeed an excellent way of circumventing the wily. In the Chicago Record I read that he wrote to an autograph-beggar that he would send his autograph on receiving proof that the autograph-hunter had deposited two and a half dollars in a certain New York fresh air fund.
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