THE AUTHOR
OF "TRIXIE"
CHAPTER I
(1)
"Every man and woman," said the Bishop of Pontefract, "has one novel in them."
There are not many clubs where you can hear things as good as that, things so original, so profound, so well expressed. In fact there is but one—the Athenæum. I need not fear to say this, for I am not a member.
They were chatting over their after-
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