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And, besides, I very much doubt whether Farquhar was their real name at all." "What makes you think that?" "Because the name was carefully erased from the few possessions my poor father left behind him. So now I have let the matter drop," added Cecil, with a bitter laugh, "as it is sometimes a mistake to look up back-numbers in the colonies; they are not invariably pleasant reading."
The old back-numbers whom they were to have ousted so ruthlessly? Well, he could find out. Someone lived there, at any rate. He could see a light in one of the upper rooms. He crossed over and went up the steps cautiously, like a thief. All the brass plates but one had gone. That one shone brightly in the lamp-light, giving the door a one-eyed, impish look.
Newspaper offices are among the most conservative organisations in the world; but surely after twenty-five years some changes might be permitted to creep in; some original convention of expression or assembly might be developed. I drew up to this idea cautiously among a knot of fellow-craftsmen. 'You mean, said one straight-eyed youth, 'that we are a back-number copying back-numbers?
Henry James has never gathered into a book from the back-numbers of magazines the half of his earlier efforts. In these references to the American magazine I believe I have suggested the real reason of the superiority of the American Short-stories over the English.
"We back-numbers," his father was saying, "are awfully anxious to find out why we can't appreciate the new stuff; you and Jon must tell us." "It's supposed to be satiric, isn't it?" said Fleur. He saw his father's smile. "Satiric? Oh! I think it's more than that. What do you say, Jon?" "I don't know at all," stammered Jon. His father's face had a sudden grimness.
A heavy Mogul freight, with a short cow-catcher and a fire-box that came down within three inches of the rail, began the impolite game, speaking to a Pittsburgh Consolidation, who was visiting. "Where did this thing blow in from?" he asked, with a dreamy puff of light steam. "it's all I can do to keep track of our makes," was the answer, "without lookin' after your back-numbers.
I had relied on being able to get up my facts from one or two standard works, and the back-numbers of certain periodicals.
"I have had such a hard life, with no one to care for me; and the hardness of my lot has marred my character, and through that my art." "Tell me about your life," Elisabeth said softly. "I seem to know so little of you and yet to know you so well." "You shall read what back-numbers I have, but most of them have been lost, so that I have not read them myself.
In comparison with the present world convulsion in which the slaughtered are reckoned by millions, the Boer War seems a trumpery affair of bows and arrows. I am a back-number. Still, back-numbers have their feelings and their memories. I sometimes wonder, as I sit in this wheel-chair, with my abominable legs dangling down helplessly, what Sergeant Marigold thinks of me.
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