Excerpt: ... draw closer, nearer to our grasp! Suddenly Fancy clapped her hands. "Why, of course!" she cried. "I always had an idea, somewhere inside o' me, that I'd be a lady one of these days-very important and covered all over with di'monds, so that all the other women would envy me. You know that feelin'?" "No-o," confessed Palmerston. "You would if you were a woman. But, contrariwise, what I like almost better is keepin' shop-postin' up ledgers, makin' out bills, to account rendered, second application, which doubtless ...
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Excerpt: ... draw closer, nearer to our grasp! Suddenly Fancy clapped her hands. "Why, of course!" she cried. "I always had an idea, somewhere inside o' me, that I'd be a lady one of these days-very important and covered all over with di'monds, so that all the other women would envy me. You know that feelin'?" "No-o," confessed Palmerston. "You would if you were a woman. But, contrariwise, what I like almost better is keepin' shop-postin' up ledgers, makin' out bills, to account rendered, second application, which doubtless has escaped your notice, and all that sort of thing. I saw a shop in Plymouth once with young women by the dozen sittin' at desks, and when they pulled a string little balls came rollin' towards them over on their heads like the stars in heaven, all full of cash; and they'd open one o' these balls and hand you out your change just as calm and scornful as if they were angels and you the dirt beneath their feet. You can't think how I longed to be one o' them and behave like that. But the two things didn't seem to go together." "What two things?" "Why, sittin' at a desk like that and sittin' on a sofa and sayin' 'How d'e do, my dear? It's so good of you to call in this dreadful weather, especially as you have to hire. . . .' But now," said Fancy, clasping her hands, "I see my way: that is, if you're really a genius. You shall write your books and I'll sell them. 'Mr and Mrs Palmerston Burt, Author and-what's the word?-pub-publicans-no, publisher; Author and Publisher.' It's quite the highest class of business: and if any one tried to patronise me I could always explain that I just did it to help, you bein' a child in matters of business. Geniuses are mostly like that." "Are they?" "Yes, that's another of their drawbacks. And," continued Fancy, "you'd be a celebrity of course, which means that we should be in the magazines, with pictures-A Corner of the Library, and The Rose-garden, looking West, and Mrs Palmerston Burt is not above...
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