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As to any one buying the book? Who ever saw any one buying a six-shilling novel? It was only within the last year or so that the old three volumes with their thirty-one-and-six had departed this life. The publishers had assured Peter that this new six-shilling form was the thing. "Please have you got 'Reuben Hallard' by Peter Westcott?... Thank you, I'll take it with me."
That moment's regret had brought her to her senses. The blood came quickly to her face, as she thought how intimately they had talked within so short a time. Reviewing it as with a searchlight that strides across the sky she scarcely believed that it was true. In just an hour, she had told him as much more than she had told Miss Hallard. Had she changed?
He was again bewildered, as he had been after the publication of "Reuben Hallard" by the extraordinary variance of opinions amongst reviewers and amongst his own personal friends.
Already Schofield's words had given birth to a suspicion in my mind that Andriaovsky, in permitting these fellows, Hallard, Connolly, and the rest, to suppose that he "thought highly" of them and their work, had been giving play to that malicious humour of his; and they naturally did not see the joke. That joke, too, was between himself, dead, and me, preparing to write his "Life."
"You're going, Sally?" he said. "Yes, father." He stood up from his chair and looked at her looked her up and down as though he wished the sight of her to last in his memory for the rest of his life. "What time do you get to London?" "Half-past one." "And you've arranged about where you're going to stay?" "Yes, I'm going to share rooms with Miss Hallard " "The girl who's going to be an artist?"
"Peter, ask Miss Rossiter if she will have some more tea...." Oh! What a fool he is! What an absolute ass! On the second of these two meetings she had read "Reuben Hallard." She loved it! She thought it astounding! The most wonderful first novel she had ever read. How had he been able to make one feel Cornwall so? She had been once to Cornwall, to Mullion and it had been just like that!
The Lancastrian still talked; but I, profoundly moved, mechanically gathered up the drawings from the floor and returned them to their proper packages and folios. I was dining at home, alone, that evening, and for form's sake I asked this faithful dog of Andriaovsky's to share my meal; but he excused himself he was dining with Hallard and Connolly.
She is the lamb that goes willing to the slaughter, the woman, whom a man like Traill, when once he holds the trembling threads of her affection, can drive to the uttermost. "Then you give no liberty to a woman?" she said. "No not the liberty she talks about. Not the idea of liberty that she gets from these suffragist pamphleteers." "I'd like you to meet my friend, Miss Hallard," said Sally.
"Was it raining when you walked from the tram?" "No. It's stopped now. But it was up in town, and all the 'buses were full up inside." "Cheerful," said Miss Hallard. She twisted her hair into some sort of shape and secured it indiscriminately with pins. This girl is the revolutionary. Hers is the type that has been the revolutionary through all ages.
There, at any rate, "Reuben Hallard" was, ready to face all the world, to go, perhaps, to the farthest Hebrides, to be lost in all probability, utterly lost, in the turgid flood of contemporary fiction. There was a dedication "To Stephen"... How surprised Stephen would be!
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