The Seventh Of May, 1910
Arnold Bennett
It was an exquisitely beautiful Italian morning, promising heat that a mild and constant breeze would temper. The East was one glitter.
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Arnold Bennett
The large majority of our fellow-citizens care as much about literature as they care about aeroplanes or the programme of the Legislature. They do not ignore it; they are not quite indifferent to it. But their interest in it is faint and perfunctory; or, if their interest happens to be violent, it is spasmodic.
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