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You, my reader, have more than once found yourself beneath his strange spell. And what was the secret of his success? He had been asked by numberless interviewers, and to them all he had made the same stereotyped reply: "I live the mysteries I write." He seemed annoyed by his own success. Other writers suffered from that complaint known as "swelled head," but Walter Fetherston never.
Now Captain Kettle had endured all this publicity with a good deal of restiveness, and had used language to one or two interviewers who managed to ferret him out, which fairly startled them; but this last move for a public subscription made him furious.
Then I am quite free of politicians, interviewers, gossiping people, society ladies, and all the rest. I am master of myself, and I am myself again. 'Still, if your friends ask you 'Some of my friends have asked me. 'And you did not comply? 'No; I did not think there was any necessity for complying. 'But if I were to ask you? She laid her hand gently, lightly, timidly, on his.
Louis to the Astronef with an imaginative fluency which would have done credit to the most enterprising of American interviewers. "You see, my dear," she said to Zaidie afterwards, "as everything turned out so very happily, and as Lord Redgrave behaved in such a splendid way, I thought it was my duty to make everything appear as pleasant to the President and Lord Pauncefote as I could."
Ten minutes since the answer arrived from Tokyo. Here it is: "Do what you like and think necessary, but please alter all names, et cetera, as propose returning via America, and fear interviewers. Japan jolly place." Then follows some private matter which I need not insert. Oliver is always extravagant where cablegrams are concerned.
Just so and your grandmother, who sent you here, keeps an inn there?" "Yes, sir, the Ellingham Arms," replied the girl as she sat down and glanced a little nervously at her two interviewers. "To be sure. And your grandmother's name is what?" "Hannah Summers, sir." "Mrs. Hannah Summers. Grandfather living?" "No, sir." "Very well Mrs.
For a long while they stood waiting. Their luggage was examined, and Mr. Twist's luggage only his was baggage was examined, and the kissing and exclaiming crowd swayed hither and thither, and broke up into groups, and was shot through by interviewers, and got packed off into taxis, and grew thinner and thinner, and at last was so thin that the concealment of the Sacks in it was no longer possible.
The captain allowed me to have a candle and sit up in the saloon, where I worried through the night as I best might. How could I be in a fit condition to accept the attention of my friends in Liverpool, after sitting up every night for more than a week; and how could I be in a mood for the catechizing of interviewers, without having once lain down during the whole return passage?
The public clamored for intimate particulars concerning Christopher Quarles, the house in Chelsea was besieged by hopeful interviewers, and the professor could only escape their attentions by going out of town. It was an excellent excuse for golf, he declared, and an opportunity to improve on his five handicap.
Or would you simply throw yourself down on the grass wherever the angel happened to leave you, and try to see or to realize or to recall nothing, but passively permit your soul to feel and experience and grow what way it would, prompted by the inner voice and guided by the inner light, heedless of what the interviewers were expecting and of what duty and obligation and the unique opportunity demanded?
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