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Do you imagine he is a constant visitor? I thought it better to say nothing until the thing is actually done. Who knows what may happen? She was in a strange, nervous state, and Reardon regarded her uneasily. He talked very little in these days, and passed hours in dark reverie. His book was finished, and he awaited the publisher's decision.
If he had told me I'd have said nothing about it so there!" "I am not yet a publisher's clerk, but I expect to be," said Godefroid. "You have come here to cut the ground from under the feet of Good! a man warned is a man armed." "Stop!" cried Godefroid, placing himself between the Vauthier and the door. "Look here, what interest have you in the matter?"
"One thing, however, you must grant the good bookseller. He is tolerant. He is patient of all ideas and theories. Surrounded, engulfed by the torrent of men's words, he is willing to listen to them all. Even to the publisher's salesman he turns an indulgent ear. He is willing to be humbugged for the weal of humanity. He hopes unceasingly for good books to be born.
Not for much longer, he realized, could he keep his mother's feelings against her from Consuello. Late in the afternoon, when the clatter of the telegraph instruments and the typewriter had lulled, and tired men lounged, squatted on desks and tilted back in chairs in the local room discussing the events of the day, John and Brennan were summoned to the publisher's private office.
He did not even know he was himself the meeting-point of all the brilliant and beautiful persons, assembled in the publisher's Saturday Salon, for although a youthful minor poet, he was modest and lovable. Perhaps his Oxford tutorship was sobering.
It is said that he rushed into the publisher's office, exultingly proclaiming his selection. Few cities have had their society and manners sketched by such eminent pens as Bath Smollett, Miss Burney, Miss Austen, and Boz. The old walls and houses are thus made to live.
During his first marriage his intimacy with Mariana continues and Miss C. thereby has an opportunity, which she used with much power, for realistic scenes, that I believe will prove attractive. I had no hesitation therefore in advising you to purchase Mariana, although the plot is crude. I could not take the publisher's hint. I put my papers back into my box and obtained another situation.
What gave me the most trouble and annoyance was the publisher's remembering some life or trial, foreign or domestic, which he wished to be inserted, and which I was forthwith to go in quest of and purchase at my own expense: some of those lives and trials were by no means easy to find.
Still, his appearance at the door of a newspaper, magazine or book publisher's office, accompanied by the announcement of his name, brought him respect and a polite hearing if that could afford any satisfaction to a man whose darling wife was growing wan from insufficient food. One devoted friend he and his family made in Mr.
When a publisher's salesman takes you out to dinner, it is not surprising if the conversation turns toward literature about the time the last of the peas are being harried about the plate. "Well, gentlemen," said Roger as his guests assembled in his little cabinet, "it's a cold evening. Pull up toward the fire. Make free with the cider. The cake's on the table.
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