First instalment

Saturday morning.  Here's the log of the first chapter I'm reading today:
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1:59 p.m.  Chapter VI is seven pages  :(

1:59 p.m.  She's going to write 61 chapters, and she still needs seven-page chapters?!

2  p.m.  Whatever happened to "In der Kuerze liegt die Wuerze"?

2:01 p.m.  At any rate, I'll start reading now.  But I do wish there was a way to protest verbose texts  :(

2:04 p.m.  So "... she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general ...," and therefore "... (s)he mentioned this to her friend Miss Lucas."  Evil younger sister, trying her best to make sure that that which is otherwise "not likely to be discovered by the world in general" does not fail to become public knowledge.  There is a mathematical model of how rapidly rumour spreads  :)

2:09 p.m.  Beautiful clause:  "... there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement."

2:14 p.m.  The game is afoot, "(w)ith great energy---"  :)

2:19 p.m.  Done.  But there will (have to) be more before the day is out, of course.