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Fro in literature which had been commenced partly perhaps from a sense of pleasure in the work, partly as a passport into society, had been converted into hard work by which ht be earned So that Lady Carbury when she wrote to her friends, the editors, of her struggles was speaking the truth Tidings had reached her of this and the othernear to her still,--of this and that other wos in literature And it had seeive a wide field to her hopes Why should she not add a thousand a year to her incoentleman and marry that heiress who, in Lady Carbury's look-out into the future, was destined to ht! Who was so handsoreeable? Who hadnecessary to the winning of heiresses?
And then he could ht be earned to tide over the present evil day, all ht be well
The one most essential obstacle to the chance of success in all this was probably Lady Carbury's conviction that her end was to be obtained not by producing good books, but by inducing certain people to say that her books were good She did work hard at what she wrote,--hard enough at any rate to cover her pages quickly; and was, by nature, a clever wohtly fashion, and had already acquired the knack of spreading all she knew very thin, so that it ood book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good Had Mr Broune, in his closet, told her that her book was absolutely trash, but had undertaken at the same time to have it violently praised in the 'Breakfast Table', it may be doubted whether the critic's own opinion would have even wounded her vanity The woood in her, false though she was
Whether Sir Felix, her son, had beco, or whether he had been born bad, who shall say? It is hardly possible that he should not have been better had he been taken away as an infant and subjected to ain it is hardly possible that any training or want of training should have produced a heart so utterly incapable of feeling for others as was his He could not even feel his own misfortunes unless they touched the outward coination to realise future h the futurity to be considered was divided frole week,--but by a single night He liked to be kindly treated, to be praised and petted, to be well fed and caressed; and they who so treated him were his chosen friends He had in this the instincts of a horse, not approaching the higher sy