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The delight of having his own organ once more, of making himself a power in the world of letters, of emphasising to a large audience his developed methods of criticism! An embittered man is a man beset by evil temptations. The Study contained each week certain columns of flying gossip, and when he thought of this, Yule also thought of Clement Fadge, and sundry other of his worst enemies.
He signed to Neal to keep silent, and himself parried the shower of questions so adroitly that his hostess got no information from him. She tired at last, and with a show of disappointed temper, put the salmon on the table. "There's your fish for you," she said, "and fadge and oaten farles, and if you want more you'd better show some civility to the woman that does for you."
Fadge had harmed it, no doubt of that, by giving it a tone which did not suit the majority of its readers serious people, who thought that the criticism of contemporary writing offered an opportunity for something better than a display of malevolent wit. But a return to the old earnestness would doubtless set all right again. And the joy of sitting in that dictatorial chair!
On the one hand, he explained in a tone of candour, 'who will not blame me if our engagement terminates in circumstances such as these? On the other you are aware, by-the-by, that her father objects in the strongest way to this marriage? 'No, I didn't know that. 'He will neither see me nor hear of me. Merely because of my connection with Fadge. Think of that poor girl thus situated.
I suppose there will be a notice in The Study and some of the other papers. I hope somebody will make it an opportunity to have a hit at that ruffian Fadge. By-the-by, it doesn't much matter now how you speak of Fadge; but I was a trifle anxious when I heard your story at dinner. 'Oh, you can afford to be more independent. What are you thinking about? 'Nothing. 'Why do you look sad?
'I'll make an opportunity of talking about your books to Fadge. I think Fadge and I shall get on pretty well together. Alfred Yule hates the man fiercely, for some reason or other. By the way, I may as well tell you that I broke short off with the Yules on purpose. 'Oh? 'I had begun to think far too much about the girl. Wouldn't do, you know.
An evening newspaper which piqued itself on independence indulged in laughing appreciation of the polemical chapter, and the next day printed a scornful letter from a thinly-disguised correspondent who assailed both book and reviewer. For the moment people talked more of Alfred Yule than they had done since his memorable conflict with Clement Fadge. The publisher had hoped for this.
Should I be fit for any place in a newspaper office, for instance? 'I fear not. You are the last man to have anything to do with journalism. 'If I appealed to my publishers, could they help me? 'I don't see how. They would simply say: Write a book and we'll buy it. 'Yes, there's no help but that. 'If only you were able to write short stories, Fadge might be useful. 'But what's the use?
Fadge flattered me with confidential chat, and I discovered at length why Barlow had asked me to meet him; it's Fadge that is going to edit Culpepper's new monthly you've heard about it? and he had actually thought it worth while to enlist me among contributors! Now, how's that for a piece of news? The speaker looked from Reardon to Amy with a smile of vast significance.
At that time Yule was editor of a weekly paper called The Balance, a literary organ which aimed high, and failed to hit the circulation essential to its existence. Fadge, a younger man, did reviewing for The Balance; he was in needy circumstances, and had wrought himself into Yule's good opinion by judicious flattery.
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