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me with such interest that I read your story
immediately.
‘I confess I began it with a secret misgiving;
we editors often have the sad duty of crushing
the illusions of young beginners who submit
their first literary attempts to our judgment, and
in your case this duty would have appeared
particularly painful to me. But as I went on,
my fear vanished, and I was thoroughly
captivated by the youthful freshness and the warm,
sincere feeling that breathes throughout your
story. These qualities influenced me so much in
your favour, that I fear I am too much under
the spell as yet to enable me to give you
an impartial, categorical answer to your
question, “if you are likely to become a great
authoress.”
‘For the present, all I can say is, that I shall
be very much pleased to publish your story in
the next number of my periodical. In reply to
your question, I can only say, write and work—
time must do the rest.
‘I cannot deny that your story is too naïve in
certain respects, that it wants finish, and that
there are — forgive my sincerity — faults of
grammar. But these defects are of small
consequence, and you will get over them if you
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