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He was at Biarritz at the time, and was kept regularly informed of everything connected with this affair of the apparitions, with which the entire Parisian press was also occupying itself, for the persecutions would not have been complete if the pens of Voltairean newspaper-men had not meddled in them.
It seems to me that in the next moment I shall hear of some thrilling happening." "It's listening for the first rumour of the 'about to happen' that makes newspaper-men so old and yet so young, so worn and yet so eager. Every night, every moment of every night, we are expecting it, hoping for some astounding news which it will test our resources to the utmost to present adequately."
Both these papers contain articles evidently the work of able hands, and in the case of the Indépendance the foreign correspondence must be a very costly item, forming, as it frequently does, five columns of a large page. The price of each is twenty centimes high, certainly, for a single sheet. It has often been observed, too, that French newspaper-men seem exceptionally well off.
He was at Biarritz at the time, and was kept regularly informed of everything connected with this affair of the apparitions, with which the entire Parisian press was also occupying itself, for the persecutions would not have been complete if the pens of Voltairean newspaper-men had not meddled in them.
This last was a rendezvous for actors, artists, musicians, newspaper-men in short, the Bohemian set of that day and its walls were covered with old play-bills, newspaper clippings, and portraits of tragedians and comedians of the past. But already a demand had been felt for viands of another nature; hospitality of another sort.
"They had better not hound that man much farther," one man at the table on the right whispered to his companion, who nodded, with sharp eyes on Carroll's face. They were both newspaper-men. When Carroll had paid his bill and passed out, one of the men, young and clean-shaven, pressed close to his side. "Pardon me, sir," he said, "but if you would allow me to express my regrets and sympathy "
The end of the colloquy was that Verena, having assented, with her usual docility, to her companion's optimistic contention that it was a "phase," this taste for evening-calls from collegians and newspaper-men, and would consequently pass away with the growth of her mind, remarked that the injustice of men might be an accident or might be a part of their nature, but at any rate she should have to change a good deal before she should want to marry.
All newspaper-men, whatever they wrote, felt alike about the Senate. Adams floated with the stream. He was eager to join in the fight which he foresaw as sooner or later inevitable.
No one wanted him; no one wanted any of his friends in reform; the blackmailer alone was the normal product of politics as of business. All this was excessively amusing. Adams never had been so busy, so interested, so much in the thick of the crowd. He knew Congressmen by scores and newspaper-men by the dozen. He wrote for his various organs all sorts of attacks and defences.
But you've gotten in with those newspaper people; and they do drink, and are not very choice in their company." "And lawyers drink; yet we are going to make a lawyer out of Jim. And we have known country farmers addicted to the habit. Newspaper-men are quite up to the average. But that has nothing to do with Delia." "No, women don't so often take to drinking.
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