Excerpt from A Hard Woman: A Story in Scenes AS a painter seeks far and wide for suitable models for his pictures, so a writer of novels, of the school to which I belong, has to pursue the same troublesome method. I am always on the look out for the human document; I occasionally find it, and the chief personage of the story following has for some time past been one of my very best models. I have studied her long, and I think that no one knows her better than I do - her husband probably not excepted.

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