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'He has no reason to have, Mr Milvain. 'No, no. Fadge is an offensive fellow, when he likes; and I fancy he very often does like. Well, I must make what use of him I can. You won't think worse of me because I write for him? 'I know that one can't exercise choice in such things. 'True. I shouldn't like to think that you regard me as a Fadge-like individual, a natural Fadgeite. Marian laughed.
Such a letter, coming under the notice of the great Fadge, might do its writer serious harm. 'Yes, you are right, he repeated. 'I'll stop that rumour at its source. I can't guess how it started; for aught I know, some enemy hath done this, though I don't quite discern the motive.
There were two beliefs in him: on the one hand, he recognised Fadge in every line of the writing; on the other, he had a perverse satisfaction in convincing himself that it was Milvain who had caught so successfully the master's manner.
I don't like you to look upon your father as a thickhead who couldn't be expected to succeed. Look at Fadge. He married a woman of good social position; she brought him friends and influence. But for that he would never have been editor of The Study, a place for which he wasn't in the least fit.
The paper has been going downhill for the last year; I know of two publishing houses who have withdrawn their advertising from it, and who never send their books for review. Everyone foresaw that kind of thing from the day Mr Fadge became editor. The tone of his paragraphs has been detestable. Two reviews of the same novel, eh? And diametrically opposed? Ha! Ha!
He wrote a drama of modern life, and for some years strove to get it acted, but in vain; finally it appeared 'for the closet' giving Clement Fadge such an opportunity as he seldom enjoyed. The one noteworthy thing about these productions, and about others of equally mistaken direction, was the sincerity of their workmanship.
Surely that is extreme behaviour. What she dreaded seemed to be coming to pass. Jasper stood rather stiffly, and threw his head back. 'You know the reason, dear. That prejudice has entered into his very life. It is not you he dislikes; that is impossible. He thinks of you only as he would of anyone connected with Mr Fadge. 'Well, well; it isn't a matter of much moment.
When he had thoroughly got his hand in, it fell to Mr Fadge, in the mere way of business, to review a volume of his old editor's, a rather pretentious and longwinded but far from worthless essay 'On Imagination as a National Characteristic. The notice was a masterpiece; its exquisite virulence set the literary circles chuckling.
Do you suppose, Mr Milvain, that society is going to be reformed by you people who write for money? Why, you are the very first class that will be swept from the face of the earth as soon as the reformation really begins! Alfred puffed at his cigarette. His thoughts were occupied with Mr Fadge and The Study.
She knew him well enough to understand that such a notice would irritate him profoundly; but why should he go out of his way to show it her, and with this peculiar acerbity of manner? 'Why do you say that, father? 'It doesn't occur to you who may probably have written it? She could not miss his meaning; astonishment held her mute for a moment, then she said: 'Surely Mr Fadge wrote it himself?
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