Ad Graecas Kalends.
To the author this decisive utterance by the no longer patient lawyer: “But realiv. sir. I must insist that you will
give me some definite idea as to when you will settle.” The author consented to lower his eyes and to wave his pipe languidly. “Why, certainly, sir—though there seems to me to be a rather unnecessary commotion about this trifle,” he drawled. “I will pay the bill as soon is I think of it after receiving the money which a publisher will pay me in case he accepts the novel which 1 will write and send him just as soon as I feel in an energetic mood after a really good idea for a plot has occurred to me!”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 25 May 1907, Page 14
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123Ad Graecas Kalends. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 25 May 1907, Page 14
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