CHAPTER IX
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Since his marriage Dunkle, beyond correcting the proof-sheets of "Trixie," had not done a stroke of work. Not one. The poems which we have seen him offering to Messrs. Capper and Ironsides were things which he had written as a bachelor; failures, which had been rejected by all the magazines. Of course I don't mean all the magazines. Only those magazines which Dunkle considered worthy of his verse, The Metropolitan Hermes, for instance, The Annual Review, The Hebdomadary Monthly, Style, The Quill Pen, The Jukes Journal, The Aesthetic Quarterly,
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