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Updated: June 21, 2025
By way of facts, he told me that business had picked up since the party conventions, and that he was going to get off at Coketown. "Say," said Pescud, stirring his discarded book with the toe of his right shoe, "did you ever read one of these best-sellers?
He did a great deal with books, so that he wrote several best-sellers. This eased the financial situation and they might have had more time for things. But Elise still kept him at it. She wanted to be the wife of a great man. Yet as the years went on, Duncan and I began to wonder if her hopes would be realized. Jimmie wrote and wrote.
"Whose is this, anyhow?" he asked, opening the book instead of passing it over to me. "Looks like Ruth's marks." Then after a pause, "Is it Ruth's?" "I don't know. Perhaps." "She shouldn't read stuff like this!" pronounced the young judge. "Oh, Ruth has always read everything she wanted to." "Yes, I suppose so more's the pity best-sellers, anything that's going. But this this!
No conductor comes to punch your ticket, no brakeman to bellow the stops, no train butcher bleating the gabbled invoice of his gumdrops, bananas and other best-sellers. Glory be!
By the way," he broke off, "pardon me for quoting from you, but I don't think back-season débutantes are like out-of-demand best-sellers not all of them. Anyhow, all best-sellers do not deteriorate. And tell me, is this chap with the deep-purring car the villain or the hero in your novel the dark one with the hair blown straight back?" I almost stopped in my amazement.
"Not always," Mr. Taylor replied; "but it is our custom. You see, we are an unusual sort of publishing-house. We do not run after the best-sellers and the trash we publish real books, books with a mission and a message for the world. And we advertise them widely we make the world heed them; and so we feel justified in asking the author to help us with a part of the expense.
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