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Johnson believed in ghosts," said Valentine. "O, please spare us Dr. Johnson," cried Charlotte, with seriocomic intensity. "What is it that obliges magazine-writers to be perpetually talking about Dr. Johnson? If they must dig up persons from the past, why can't they dig up newer persons than that poor ill-used doctor?" The door opened with a hoarse groan, and Mr.
O, my dearest, my fondest, redeeming angel of my ill-spent life! have you been only a supernal visitant, after all, shining on me for a little while, to depart when your mission of redemption is accomplished?" "Powers above!" thought Mr. Sheldon, "what nonsense these sentimental magazine-writers can talk!" He was in nowise melted by the lover's anguish, though it was very real.
Her ears were tingling with sounds to which they were unaccustomed, and which thrilled them exquisitely the speech, accent, and tones of one who belonged to that world unknown to her except through books out of which Miss Margaret had come and to which this new teacher, she at once recognized, belonged. Undoubtedly he was what was called, by magazine-writers and novel-writers, a "gentleman."
He does not spare their politicians, their rulers, their moralists, their poets, their players, their critics, their reviewers, their magazine-writers; he levels their resorts of business, their places of amusement, at a blow their cities, churches, palaces, ranks and professions, refinements, and elegances and leaves nothing standing but himself, a mighty landmark in a degenerate age, overlooking the wide havoc he has made!
However, Nathaniel was not a person who could easily be suppressed, and he soon became one of the most popular magazine-writers of his time, his prose being described by an admirer as 'delicate and brief like a white jacket transparent like a lump of sugar in champagne soft-tempered like the sea-breeze at night. Unfortunately, the magazines paid but little, even for prose of the above description, and Willis presently found himself in financial difficulties; while, with all his acknowledged fascinations, he was unlucky in his first love-affair.
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