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Charley, your [proof-reader] is an idiot; & not only an idiot, but blind; & not only blind, but partly dead.
Some of the spacing—most of it, in fact—is absolutely disgraceful; but this goddamned ass never sees it. By God he can’t see anything; he is blind & dead & rotten, & ought to be thrown into the sewer.
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That compositor Hoefer, is not a compositor at all, he is a 3-weeks apprentice.