CHAPTER VI
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The success of his novel was naturally, to the Archdeacon, intensely gratifying. He never doubted—poor gentleman—that its colossal sale was proof of its artistic excellence. As it had been written, ostensibly, by his son-in-law, it was entirely in order for the Archdeacon to subscribe to three press-cutting agencies for notices of the book. He did this quite openly; kept the little green, pink and white slips on the desk in his study; read them (not all) aloud to his visitors; spoke of "that astonishing young son-in-law of mine, Bisham Dunkle
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