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Silvia's eyes and mine had met in speechless horror since she had mentioned the "writing woman." "Lucien!" Silvia now said in a tragic, hoarse whisper "the Polydores!" "Oh, do you know them?" asked Miss Frayne. "Dr. Felix Polydore, the eminent LL.D. or something like that." "The whole family are D's," I said. "His wife is the highest of high-brows, and they are averse to interviews.
These freedoms are not tolerated in American noveldom, and only a few futile "high-brows" sigh in vain for Thackeray's "happy harmless Fableland, where these things are." The majority of us are deep in "vital" novels. Nor is the reason far to seek. One hears a great deal nowadays concerning "vital" books. Their authors have been widely praised on very various grounds.
They showed culture and breeding all right, and the latest style in gowns. Of course those intellectual high-brows in your set didn't need an introduction to you; you were advertised as an example of ultra-fashionable perfection, to spur the ambition of those lower down in the social scale. Perhaps it's a good thing."
Cold to her knees was the barren stone of the shrine; and she feebly recanted, "Yes, that's so." Mr. Schwirtz cheerfully took out a cigar, smelled it, bit it, luxuriously removed the band, requested permission to smoke, lighted the cigar without waiting for an answer to that request, sighed happily, and dived again: "Not that I'm knocking the high-brows, y' understand.
The limit is generally a penny, so it is hard to win a fortune. The next in popularity is a card game called "Nap." It is well named. Every time I played it I went to sleep. Whist and Solo Whist are played by the high-brows of the Company. When the gamblers tire of all other games they try "Banker and Broker."
Democracy is here; and it's here for keeps, the rule of the many good or bad; and it's as your old parson said in the court room, it's going to be the United States of the World. What's the use of issuing a rag sheet that will preach to a little parlorful of sissies and high-brows? You've got to get the crowd, and to educate 'em up to self-government, to pelt 'em to a pulp with facts!
He knew a lot of people back home, all the high-brows, and when he got pretty full, he would commence to sing. And say he had that Caruso guy lashed to the mast, I bet. He sang love stuff, and sob stuff, and a lot of opera stuff that sounded like gargling. Gee, it was great!
"Do you go to concerts, symphonies, and so on, much?" Una next catechized. "Well, no; that's where I fall down. Just between you and I, I never did have much time for these high-brows that try to make out they're so darn much better than common folks by talking about motifs and symphony poems and all that long-haired stuff. Music they call that!
A gang of high-brows who can't take care of themselves off Broadway! Your friends!" The idea of meeting with any effective opposition from Fremont's boy friends was so amusing to the big fellow that he burst into a hearty laugh. "Your friends!" he repeated. "Ho! Ho! Baby dudes!" "About this reward," Fremont went on, resolved to keep Big Bob talking if he could, "about this blood money!
"Professor Willis told me, this afternoon," Lydia went on, "and I laughed at him at first. I thought he was teasing me. Why only high-brows belong to the Scholars' Club! Prexy belongs and the best of the professors and only a few of the post-graduate pupils. But he says I was elected. I told him lots of students had higher standings than I, and he only laughed and said he knew it.
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