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_ Monday Noon . _ SARAH , Sh-h ... ! I 'm off ! J. _ Wednesday , more than midnight . _ DEAREST S. , I 'm a dying woman but my sketch is done ! I 've lived on board the typewriter since twelve o'clock on Monday , coming briefly ashore for a snatch of food or sleep , but it 's done and I adore it ! -LRB- Says the author , modestly . -RRB-