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Yule had once or twice referred to the forthcoming magazine with acrid contempt, and of course he did not purchase a copy. 'So young Milvain has joined Fadge's hopeful standard, he remarked, a day or two later, at breakfast. 'They say his paper is remarkably clever; I could wish it had appeared anywhere else. Evil communications, &c.
Of course Mr Fadge is not immediately responsible; but it'll be unpleasant for him, decidedly unpleasant. He smiled grimly. 'You hear this, Marian? 'How is it explained, father? 'May be accident, of course; but well, there's no knowing. I think it very likely this will be the end of Mr Fadge's tenure of office. Rackett, the proprietor, only wants a plausible excuse for making a change.
As it was, silence might have been better tactics. But Mr Fadge knew that his enemy would smart under the poisoned pin-points, and that was something gained. On the day that The Current appeared, its treatment of Alfred Yule was discussed in Mr Jedwood's private office. 'But there's Fadge's thumb-mark all down the page, cried Mr Quarmby.
All the guests were ignorant of any tie of kindred between their host and the man spoken of. 'I believe, said the novelist, 'that he had a clever daughter who used to do all the work he signed. That used to be a current bit of scandal in Fadge's circle. 'Oh, there was much exaggeration in that, remarked Jasper, blandly. 'His daughter assisted him, doubtless, but in quite a legitimate way.
Fadge desired nothing better; the uproar which arose chaff, fury, grave comments, sneering spite could only result in drawing universal attention to his anonymous cleverness, and throwing ridicule upon the heavy, conscientious man. Well, you probably remember all about it. It ended in the disappearance of Yule's struggling paper, and the establishment on a firm basis of Fadge's reputation.
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice, was a characterising note of Mr Fadge's periodical; his monthly comments on publications were already looked for with eagerness by that growing class of readers who care for nothing but what can be made matter of ridicule.
Years ago some of Fadge's work was not without a certain a certain conditional promise of of comparative merit; but now his writing, in my opinion, is altogether beneath consideration; how Rackett could be so benighted as to give him The Study especially after a man like Henry Hawkridge passes my comprehension.
At the end of October appeared an authoritative announcement that Fadge's successor would be not Alfred Yule, but a gentleman who till of late had been quietly working as a sub-editor in the provinces, and who had neither friendships nor enmities among the people of the London literary press. A young man, comparatively fresh from the university, and said to be strong in pure scholarship.
To her there appeared no reason whatever why Jasper should not be introduced to Mrs Yule, yet she could not venture to propose it. Remembering her father's last remarks about Milvain in connection with Fadge's magazine, she must wait for distinct permission before offering the young man encouragement to repeat his visit.
Yes, I know, I know. I'll try to forgive you. 'I can't help thinking at times of the poor girl, Amy. Life will be easier for her now, with only her mother to support. Someone spoke of her this evening, and repeated Fadge's lie that she used to do all her father's writing. 'She was capable of doing it. I must seem to you rather a poor-brained woman in comparison. Isn't it true?
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