“Works”⁠—the works of every writer she had known or heard of and many more stretched from end to end of the long shelves. On tables and chairs, more “works” were piled and tumbled, and these she saw, turning a page or two, were often works about other works by Sir Nicholas and a score of others whom, in her ignorance, she supposed, since they were bound and printed, to be very great writers too. So she gave an astounding order to the bookseller to send her everything of any importance in the shop and left.

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