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"I'll read nothin'," the old man said, sweeping back the slips with a scornful hand, his small, deep-set eyes blinking at his son like a monkey's. "Well, all right, all right," Chester answered, his thin face burning again, his voice hoarsely belligerent. "That's the jestice you'll get from your father!" the old woman said, with a cackle. Julia gathered up the newspaper clippings.
It is this alone that injures "Counterparts" for many; not that they would not gladly accept the clippings in a little supplementary pamphlet, but dissertations, they say, delay the action.
The medal and the sale might have come by chance, but something about these clippings he had enclosed seemed to stand for achievement. They said that "The Hidden Waterfall," by a young American artist, was one of the most live and individual things of the exhibition. They mentioned things in her work which were poor but not one of them passed her over lightly!
He held by the neck, as it were, everything of the Parisian quarry that yelps and bounds about money, issues of stock, and the food of public fortune: bankers, stock-brokers, and jobbers, financial, political and exchange editors, wretches running after a hundred sous, statesmen in a fair way to fortune; and he distributed to this little crowd, just as he would throw food into a kennel, the discounts and clippings of his ventures, taking malicious pleasure, the insolent delight of a fortunate upstart, in feigning at the moment when loans were issued, sickness that had no existence, in order to have the right of keeping his chamber, of hearing persons of exalted names ringing at his door and dancing attendance upon him, powerful, influential and illustrious persons, him, the second-hand dealer and chafferer from Marseilles.
"But I can't bury a sea-boot," quoth the parson. The fellow scratched his head. "Na, na!" said he. Then he wanted to know how much there ought to be of a human body before it could have the benefit of Christian burial. "That I cannot exactly tell you," said the parson; "a tooth, or a finger, or hair clippings is not enough to read the burial service over.
If, however, you are dealing with light sandy loam, such coarse material would cause too rapid drying out and injure the plant, which might be benefited by lawn clippings and street sweepings.
In the mornings he was given a few short clippings to rewrite and that was all. "Don't worry, he's got an eye on you," Brennan told him. "And let me tell you something. Perhaps you've read stories about the cub reporter scooping the town, landing the big exclusive story and all that. Well, that's bunk. No cub reporter ever did it, not unless he was working against a bunch of other cubs.
Fassmann gives dolorous clippings from the Leyden Gazette, all in a blubber of tears, according to the then fashion, but full of impertinent curiosity withal. And from the Seckendorf private Papers there are Extracts of a still more inquisitive and notable character: Seckendorf and the Kaiser having an intense interest in this painful occurrence.
"'We'll be leaving on the morning train, says Andy. 'You'd better get your collars and cuffs and press clippings together. "'Great! says I. 'I'll be ready. But, Andy, says I, 'I wish I could have met that Professor James Darnley McCorkle before we went. I had a curiosity to know that man. "'That'll be easy, says Andy, turning around to the faro dealer.
When the new waterworks began Agnes saved all the newspaper clippings relating to that tremendous undertaking, and she frequently drove out there of evenings after the workmen had all gone home; with just what purpose she could not say, but she felt impelled, as she half-sheepishly confessed to her Uncle Dan, to "keep an eye on the job."
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