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Updated: July 24, 2025
I want you with me always. I've tried to get over it and I can't. I never shall now. I want you to marry me." She had read too many novelettes not to know how to take such an offer. "I'm sure I'm very grateful to you, Philip. I'm very much flattered at your proposal." "Oh, don't talk rot. You will marry me, won't you?" "D'you think we should be happy?" "No. But what does that matter?"
Yet there are to be found circles which thrill and weep in sympathetic unison with the ridiculous joys and sorrows, grotesque sentiments, and preposterous adventures of the heroes and heroines of the "Dime Novels" and novelettes, and the "Flags" and "Blades" and "Gazettes" among the lowest newspapers.
Their Adolphe serves his literary apprenticeship in two or three coffee-houses, becomes a member of the Society of Men of Letters, attacks, with or without reason, men of talent who don't read his articles, assumes a milder tone on seeing the powerlessness of his criticisms, offers novelettes to the papers which toss them from one to the other as if they were shuttlecocks: and, after five or six years of exercises more or less fatiguing, of dreadful privations which seriously tax his parents, he attains a certain position.
"Here, have you two been and had a real row?" she demanded. "Yes," Faith whispered. Peg said "Humph! You mean a proper old glory-row like they have in novelettes, eh? Don't mean to make it up till the last chapter, if ever, eh?" "I never mean to make it up." There was a little silence; then Peg said: "With all his money, it might be worth while." Faith hid her face. "I don't want his money.
Household goods are sold by anecdotes, ready-made clothes figure in episodes illustrated by short-story artists, and novelettes, distributed free, conduct us through an interesting fiction to the grand climax, where all plot complexities are untangled by the installation of an automatic water-heater.
The short-story, as well as the novel and the novelette, has always existed. The parable of "The Prodigal Son," in the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel according to Luke, is just as surely a short-story in material and method as the books of "Ruth" and "Esther" are novelettes in form.
The Career constituent insisted that to meet and talk to this girl again meant reproof, worry, interference with his work for his matriculation, the destruction of all "Discipline," and he saw the entire justice of the insistence. It was nonsense this being in love; there wasn't such a thing as love outside of trashy novelettes.
A new under-housemaid, who was greatly addicted to the reading of penny novelettes, suggested that Miss Nelly was being forced into marrying her cousin by the machinations of his mother, who was not persona grata with the servants' hall. But Pat had nipped the young person's imaginings in the bud.
You're jealous, and there's the end of the matter!" "Well, who wouldn't be jealous?" He stared at her as if he found the question hard to see. The theme was difficult invincibly difficult. He surveyed the room for a diversion. The note-book he had disinterred from her novelettes lay upon the table and reminded him of his grievance of rained hours. His rage exploded.
Romantic novelettes, reprints of popular and really clever stories, numbers of semi-religious essays and so on some only stitched and without a wrapper make up the show he spreads open before the cottage door or the servants at the farmhouse.
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