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Fladgate, 'was thinking of the results this will have upon our reputation in the trade; on which Vincent tried to appease him by promising to make it abundantly clear that the firm were no parties to the concealment, and as soon as the partners understood that it was not proposed to disturb any existing arrangements respecting 'Illusion, beyond disclosing the truth, and having some necessary revisions inserted in any future edition, they parted amicably enough, though Mark was made to understand his altered standing in the most unmistakable manner.
Fladgate was sitting with his back to the light, which was admitted through windows of ground-glass. He rose and came forward to meet Mark, and Mark saw a little reddish-haired and whiskered man, with quick eyes, and a curious perpendicular fold in the forehead above a short, blunt nose, a mobile mouth, and a pleasantly impulsive manner. 'How do you do, Mr.
After all, Mark thought, what did it matter? it wasn't his book, except in name. 'I think it's excellent, he said, 'excellent; and, by the way, Mr. Fladgate, he added, 'I should like to change the nom de plume: it's a whim of mine, perhaps, but there's another I've been thinking lately I should like better.
"There are two such societies in the town the first's patronized by small tradesmen and the like; the second by workingmen. The second does take deposits from its members. The office is in Fladgate secretary's name outside Mr. Stebbing. What are you after?" "Tell you later," said Jettison. "Just an idea."
"Home again, old girl, and glad of it! Mornin', Mrs. Quelch," said the new-comer. Mrs. Fladgate gazed at him doubtfully for a moment, and then flung her arms round his neck, ejaculating, "Saved, saved!" "Martha," said Mrs. Quelch, reprovingly, "have you no self-respect? Is this the way you deal to so shameful a deception?" Then, turning the supposed offender, "So, Mr.
He strolled up to the mantelpiece to light a cigarette, for which purpose he removed the shade from one of the candles, throwing a stronger light on his friend's face, and then, pausing with the cigarette still unlighted between his fingers, he asked suddenly: 'By the way, Fladgate said some other fellow wrote the book for you the other day! That shot at least told; every vestige of colour left Mark's face, he half rose from his chair, and then sat down again as he retorted sharply: 'Fladgate said that!
'It must be, said Mark, rising, 'I have kept you too long already. 'If you really must go, said Mr. Fladgate, not using the words in their conventional sense of polite dismissal. 'But, Mr. Ashburn, are you quite sure that this interview might not be saved from coming to nothing, as it seems about to do? Might not a word or two from you set things right again?
I took the liberty of getting Fladgate to bring us together, expressly because I can't be comfortable while I know you have your present impressions of me. I don't expect to persuade Miss Langton to have a little charity she's a woman; but I hoped you at least would give me a hearing.
He half threatened to destroy them, but if I know him he won't; he will use them to keep his hold over you we must get the start of him! 'Yes, agreed Mark, 'I can disappoint him there, at all events. I'll go to Fladgate to-morrow, and tell him everything it's all I can do now, and the sooner it is over the better! 'You must do nothing without me! said Vincent. Despair made Mark obstinate.
Fladgate, who, though he certainly was anxious to secure the book if he could, by any legitimate means, was anything but a publishing Mephistopheles. He had an object, however, in making this last appeal for confidence, as will appear immediately; but, innocent as it was, Mark's imagination conjured up a bland demon tempting him to some act of unspeakable perfidy; he trembled but not with horror.
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