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...with him again, eliminated him conclusively in favor of a pimply young man named Todd?and Jeffrey went to the modern devil of our age, who is not a merry companion, for a while. But he mended himself with courage and the memories of an old and youthful content???snow-water and the unguent of irony?a gorgeous fistfight released him from certain delusions?Joan's path crossed his again, as it always seemed to do when he was most hopeless. She had always been in love with him?and now he fell in love with her. They were married...
...custom, escapes all vengeance. The tale is well written?the author a distinguished international figure in the literary world? but, except for its suave manner and its excellent visualization of one of the most corrupt and interesting characters of a corrupt and interesting time, unimportant. As for any inflammatory content???one can think off-hand of half-a-dozen recent popular and unindicted successes that far surpass it in "frankness"?it has no cheap tricks of titillation about it at all?and a review in. the New York Evening Post even complained of supposed expurgations in the English version...
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