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While writing my first story, I rarely thought of the public, the
characters and their experiences absorbing me wholly. When my
narrative was actually in print, there was wakened a very deep
interest as to its reception. I had none of the confidence
resulting from the gradual testing of one's power or from
association with literary people, and I also was aware that, when
published, a book was far away from the still waters of which
one's friends are the protecting headlands. That I knew my work to
be exceedingly faulty goes without saying; that it was utterly
bad, I was scarcely ready to believe. Dr. Field, noted for his
pure English diction and taste, would not publish an irredeemable
story, and the constituency of the New York "Evangelist" is well
known to be one of the most intelligent in the country. Friendly
opinions from serial readers were reassuring as far as they went,
but of course the great majority of those who followed the story
were silent. A writer cannot, like a speaker, look into the eyes
of his audience and observe its mental attitude toward his
thought.


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