Foreign News: Ungracious

They made money out of her and they laughed at her. She was a Queen—hard up, probably—trying to make a little money on the side by soiling her dainty fingers with ink, writing in a language she did not know to satisfy the curiosity of distant crowds. They were hard-boiled journalists who never soiled their stubby fingers with ink because the office boy changed their typewriter ribbons when necessary.

She wrote a series of articles for the U. S. press, contracted for in advance, to be run under the title A Queen Looks at Life....

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