CHAPTER V
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Two months later "Trixie" was published at seven shillings net. Messrs. Capper hadn't, as you notice, let any grass grow up between their toes. Believing that they had a good thing in "Trixie," they had put their hearts into their work and rushed the book out like lightning.
They gave it a sweet jacket, showing a really pretty girl's face. They heralded it with innumerable paragraphs. They advertised it largely. They did everything they knew.
In spite of this, the book was an instantaneous success. The first edition of three
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