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Breathless, I read the passage twice; then, hearing at a little distance the shrill voice of the importunate newsvender, I plunged after him and stopped him, just as he came to the "Frightful murder in the Rue du Faubourg Saint ..." "Here," said I, tapping him on the shoulder; "give me one of your papers." The man's eyes glittered. "Only forty centimes, M'sieur," said he.
Now it happened that, pacing to and fro under the budding acacias of the Palais Royal garden one sunny spring-like morning, some three or four weeks after the conversation last recorded, I was pursued by a persecuting newsvender with a hungry eye, mittened fingers, and a shrill voice, who persisted in reiterating close against my ear: "News of the day, M'sieur! news of the day.
And not that newspaper only, for he presently became aware that all the small, ill-printed sheets offered him by an old newsvender in the station were full of the same news, and some with later detail nay, that the people walking up and down in the station were eagerly talking of it. An Englishman had been assassinated in Venice.
'I am just reading the answer, said Joe. 'It is very brief: here it is: "'If 'No Surrender' who has been a newsvender in your establishment since you yourself rose from that employ to the editor's chair will call at this office any morning after distributing his eight copies of your daily issue, we promise to give him such a kicking as he has never experienced during his literary career.
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