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`` And can not you discover the fair unknown ? '' `` No , I have addressed her under her _ nomme de plume _ , and desired her true name remitted , in confidence , if she objected to publicity ; but she has never seen fit to gratify my curiosity . '' `` Strange one so deserving should shun notoriety , '' remarked Sheldon . `` So it seems to me , '' said Wilberforce , who was the senior editor ; `` but I came in to call you to the Literary Association ; it meets at three o'clock . Come , let 's be off , or we shall be too late ; -- these MSS . we can look over to-morrow . '' They closed the office and went out in company .