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Well, this privileged being does not like that I, and others like me, should assume the importance and authority of that insolent elective Chamber. But that is not all. They are not willing that an underling, a journalist for instance, or lower than that, an artist, a cutter of images, should presume to slip into their domain and speak out beside them.
And not one of those who, timid and inexperienced, have suffered rude rebuff at their first advance, would have condemned her. But it so chanced whether by good fortune or by ill the event was to tell that she did not have to face a single underling. The hall door was open. She entered.
This was John Chamberlin. During two decades "Chamberlin's," half clubhouse and half chophouse, was all a rendezvous. "John" had been a gambler; first an underling and then a partner of the famous Morrissy-McGrath racing combination at Saratoga and Long Branch. There was a time when he was literally rolling in wealth. Then he went broke dead broke.
For it was not possible for Gourlay to put more than twelve horses on the road, and if he thought he had secured a good contract already, he would never dream of applying for another. Then, Wilson's malice was gratified by the thought that Gourlay, who hated him, should have to serve, as helper and underling, in a scheme for his aggrandizement. That would take down his pride for him!
And all his services are performed in person, not through any underling. That stately man who walks up the garden path morning and evening, erect as a betel-nut palm, with a tiara of graduated milk-pots on his head, and driving a snorting buffalo before him, is Gopal himself. Scarcely any other figure in the compound impresses me in the same way as his.
Fortunately, as I before said, Barnard was an underling, young, unknown, and obscure. My youth, therefore, was not so great a foe to my assumed disguise as it might otherwise have been. Montreuil supplied all requisite information.
Before Sargeant could prevent it, an underling had waved a white sheet from one of the upper windows in surrender. The old trader took two bottles of port, opened the fort gates, walked out and sat down on a French cannon while he parleyed with de Troyes for the best terms obtainable.
"I told Cap. he was hiding somewheres, but he would have it that he'd beat it down th' escape," said the gum-chewer, with the sombre triumph of the underling whose sound advice has been overruled by those above him. "Ye're pinched!" he observed. Archie started violently. The bleak directness of the speech roused him with a jerk from the dream-like state into which he had fallen.
What would the chairman do now? The situation was distinctly awkward seeing his helplessness and the lukewarmness of the Board behind him. And the secretary felt more strongly than ever the absurdity of his being an underling, he who in a few well-chosen words could so easily have twisted the meeting round his thumb. Suddenly he heard the long, rumbling sigh which preluded the chairman's speeches.
"What's left of it?" clamored Ellis, dancing all over his colleague's feet. "Can you find the copy? Anything?" "Proofs," said Wayne. "I saved a set." Ellis sat down in a chair and regarded his underling with an expression of stupefied benevolence. "Wayne," he said, "you're a genius. You're the fine flower and perfect blossom of American journalism. I love you, Wayne.
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