George Gissing Quote

He pointed to a heap of five or six hundred letters, and laughed consumedly. "Impossible to read them all, you know. It seemed to me that the fairest thing would to be to shake them together, stick my hand in, and take our one by chance. If it didn't seem very promising, I would try a second time."


New Grub Street, The Way Hither (p. 62), The Modern Library.


He pointed to a heap of five or six hundred letters, and laughed consumedly. Impossible to read them all, you know. It seemed to me that the fairest...

He pointed to a heap of five or six hundred letters, and laughed consumedly. Impossible to read them all, you know. It seemed to me that the fairest...

He pointed to a heap of five or six hundred letters, and laughed consumedly. Impossible to read them all, you know. It seemed to me that the fairest...

He pointed to a heap of five or six hundred letters, and laughed consumedly. Impossible to read them all, you know. It seemed to me that the fairest...