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Excerpt from The Lowest Rung: Together With the Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and the Understudy My character for uprightness (if I ever had one) has never survived my tacit, or in some cases emphatic, refusal to be squeezed through the clefts of confession. It is perhaps impossible for those who do not write fiction to form any conception how easily an erroneous idea gains credence that some one has been put in a book or, if the idea has once been entertained, how impossible it is to eradicate it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.