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"No, I guess not, strannger, as how should they a mean, tricky, catchpenny, skulking set that makes money out of everybody, and hain't the spirit to spend it! I do hate them, now, worse than a polecat!" "Well, now, friend, that's strange. If you were to travel for a spell, down about Boston or Salem in Massachusetts, or at Meriden in Connecticut, you'd hear tell of the Yankees quite different.
All the books I see make me sick only catchpenny nonsense. A thousand thanks for the promise of my grandfather's letters; but the book will be all spoilt by being edited by young men.
Here an acidulous-looking gentleman in blue glasses, with bows of Berlin steel, who has taken a seat at the extremity of the front row, begins, at this early stage of the exhibition, to criticise. "The whole affair is a manifest catchpenny!" observes he, scarcely under his breath.
I have never yet thought of a title!" "There is a great deal in a good title. As a novel reader, I know that by experience." MR. SQUILLS. "Certainly; there is not a catchpenny in the world but what goes down, if the title be apt and seductive.
Possibly some day a teacher of genius will devise and embody in a book a course of class lessons, sustained by simple practice and written work, that would attain this end. And on the whole I think what one might call useful or catchpenny accomplishments are also passing their zenith shorthand lessons, book-keeping lessons, and such-like impostures upon parental credulity.
There are, I regret to say, many catchpenny places of entertainment, but I cannot conceive that they would entice you." I felt Rivington lean somewhat heavily against me. "Say!" he remarked, with uncertain utterance; "come and have a drink with us." "Thank you, but I never drink. I find that alcohol, even in the smallest quantities, alters the perspective.
Indeed this is a clear test whereby you may distinguish the great artists from the mean hucksters and charlatans, that the first approach and reveal what is dreadful with calm and, as it were, with a purpose to use it for good while the vulgar catchpenny fellows must liven up their bad dishes as with a cheap sauce of the horrible, caring nothing, so that their shrieks sell, whether we are the better for them or no.
"Brice, I want your play to be thoroughly honest and true from beginning to end, and not to have any sort of catchpenny effectivism in it. You have planned it so nobly that I can't bear to have you lower the standard the least bit; and I think the honest and true way is to let the love-business be a pleasant fact in the case, as it might very well be.
No advertisements, no self-recommendation, no catchpenny tricks of trade were allowed; and yet the business went on, and, I am assured, prospered with legitimate profits. At first, various kinds of the best tea only were sold; but it seemed to the tenant of the shop that coffee and sugar ought to be included in the list.
Neither had the "Hells" and "Heavens," the fatuous, vulgar, indecent performances with catchpenny names, run for the foreigner who went to Paris so that he might for the rest of his life throw up hands of horror and say what an immoral place it was.
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