THE SERIAL PUBLICATION OF "DAVID COPPERFIELD."
Somewhere about the middle of the serial publication of " David Copperfield," happening to be out of writing paper, Dickens sallied forth one morning to get a fresh supply at the stationer's. He was living then in his favourite haunt, at Fort House, at Broadetairs. As he was about to enter the stationer's shop with the intention of buying the needful writing paper, he stood aside for a moment at the threshold to allow a lady to pass in before him. He then went on to relate —with a vivid sense still upon him of mingled enjoyment and dismay in the mere recollection—how the next instant he had overheard this strange lady asking the person behind the counter for the new green number. When it was handed to her, "Oh, this," said she, "I have read. I want the next." The next one she was thereupon told would be out by the end of the month." "Listoning to this unrecognised," be added, in conclusion," knowing the purpose for which I was there, and remembering that not one word of the numbers he was asking for was yet written, for the first and only time in my life, I felt—frightened !" s±... _ _
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 2, Issue 127, 3 July 1895, Page 3
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