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That's to show it isn't the intelligent compositor's mistake, you see!" Then there was a familiar and masterful footstep on the stairs, and the attention of both of them wavered. Arthur Dayson and his proof-correcting lost all interest and all importance for Hilda as Mr. Cannon came into the room.
"And my feelings...." "How much in addition to your salary?" And he drew hieroglyphics on the blotting paper. "Oh! We'll get on well enough, if only...." "Are you going to answer my question or not? How much in addition to your salary? Facts!" "I do translations at ten crowns a sheet; I give French lessons, I am promised proof-correcting...." "Promises aren't facts!
The manuscript is exceptionally clear, even for me who do not as a male write a very bad scrawl so that you can scarcely have much bother with the proof-correcting though even were this the case, and the printers turned out to be incorrigible blockheads and blunderers, I know you would grudge neither time nor trouble expended in my service.
We might have bought such a lot of things for the money." Months elapsed. The great event was coming nearer and nearer. A cradle had to be bought and baby-clothes. A number of things were wanted. The young husband was out on business all day long. The price of wheat had risen. Hard times were at hand. He could get no translations, no proof-correcting. Men had become materialists.
But as it could not, be helped, they were delighted. Fancy, a baby! They would be papa and mama! What should they call him? For, of course, it would be a boy. No doubt, it would. But now she had a serious conversation with her husband! There had been no translating or proof-correcting since their marriage. And his salary alone was not sufficient. "Yes, they had given no thought to the morrow.
The feeling of strangeness towards it all was increased by the fact that Bobby had, with the exception of the final proofs these Peter had read down by the sea done most of the proof-correcting. It was a task for which his practical common sense and lack of all imagination admirably fitted him.
After a peregrination of this magnitude and dreams to match, he alighted from his Pegasus, and spoke as an ordinary mortal he had enjoyed himself, and his fit of the dumps was exorcised. Putting the last touch to his proof-correcting, he left the house with his face wreathed in smiles. "Good-bye," he said to his sister, at the door; "I am off home to see if the banker is there, waiting for me.
He filled up his time at every department of the trade, learning besides type-setting and proof-correcting to take the gas-engine to pieces and to clean it, to help to make ready "formes" on the machine, to mix inks, to clean rollers and to work at press, either as inker or puller.
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