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"They're going to cure little Antoinette," says Benoît, as he frames himself in the doorway. Benoît is like a newspaper. He to whom nothing ever happens only lives to announce what is happening to others. "I know," cries Mame, "they told me so this morning. Several people already knew it this morning at seven.
Truly I could understand why those three men, probably newspaper correspondents like myself, had turned back to Santa Fe, after a glance from my present outlook. But though I understood I did not mean to duplicate their retreat.
What do they do, only upset the minds of the people, teaching them to be disrespectful to the clergy and to use language the like of which decent people ought not to use?" "It's my opinion that he is a Yank anyway," said Doyle. Mary Ellen returned from Kerrigan's shop. She carried a small parcel, wrapped in newspaper. It contained two chops for Mr. Billing's dinner.
You'll find, Stuart, if you go into newspaper work, that one of the first things to do in any big story, is to estimate, as closely as you can, the character of the men or women who are acting in it. Newspaper work doesn't deal with cold facts, like science, but with humanity, and humans act in queer ways, sometimes.
"We soon found out who he was; but I had guessed it with the first glint of the moon on him." "You thought it was the runaway convict," observed the priest simply, "because you had read in the newspaper cutting that morning that a convict had run away." "I had somewhat better grounds," replied the governor coolly.
Distrust arose; suspicious glances were exchanged; and, as the old newspaper woman was keeping up her groans, "I should like to know why you should be paid before us," two women told her roughly. "Our rights are just as good as yours!" Prompt to avail himself of the dispositions of the crowd, "And, moreover," resumed the old lawyer, "in whom did we place our confidence?
At last, when the semicircle was reduced to the bulks of the two ladies who had sat nearest him, he went in, and took a place with a newspaper at the lamp just behind them. They stopped their talk and recognized him with an exchange of consciousness.
In due time, the old gentleman capped the climax of his favors, by dying a Christian death, in bed, since which melancholy event Dominicus Pike has removed from Kimballton, and established a large tobacco manufactory in my native village. In some old magazine or newspaper I recollect a story, told as truth, of a man let us call him Wakefield who absented himself for a long time from his wife.
The letter was not read at the banquet. But it was given to the press by the officers of the Society, and the most influential Irish American newspaper in the United States did not hesitate to describe it as an "insulting letter," going to show that its author was "an Englishman in spirit who will not allow any opportunity to go by, however slight, without testifying his sympathy with the British Empire and his antipathy for its foes."
When I wielded that magnificent editorial "we," and was able to back up my own crude ideas with all the authority of a great daily newspaper, I felt that I, too, was somebody in the world of affairs, and that though I might live in modest lodgings and possess but narrow means, I was not without a distinct place and influence of my own in the great commonwealth.
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