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Updated: June 19, 2025
I have some neighbours that my heart just aches for; all their reading is yellow-covered books, such as 'The Pirate's Bride, and 'The Fatal Secret. Such food is worse than cracker-water, and arrowroot, for they are starving souls instead of bodies, and the Word can't find any place to take root, much less to grow, when the mind is filled up with such trash." "Joseph Cook thinks," said Mrs.
Verdi declared that he did not wish to compose, but the worthy impresario forced the manuscript on him, and persisted that he should undertake the work. The composer returned home with the libretto, but threw it on one side without looking at it, and for the next five months continued his reading of bad romances and yellow-covered novels. The impulse of work soon came again, however.
He merely smiled in an apologetic manner, and he made a little gesture with his right hand, as if to admit that he was helpless, and that he cast himself upon the good will of Riley Sinclair. Riley jerked his head to one side and scowled. He hated that appeal. He wanted this hanging to be the work of seven men, not of one. Montana returned, bringing with him a yellow-covered, red-backed book.
Then he wasted several hours more loitering about the beautiful park on the Kaiserstrasse and looking in the shop windows at views of Marienbad on postal cards, at yellow-covered French, German, and Russian novels, at pictures of kings, queens, and actresses. He also visited the houses wherein Goethe, Chopin, and Wagner had dwelt.
Could the whole mass of light literature be at once and forever swept out of existence, the people would soon acquire a love of solid reading as ardent as that which now pervades the lower stratum of our society for 'yellow-covered' trash.
I passed a new gate of my imagination, I fancy, and if I have a way of my own in telling things it began that moment. The woman turned with a kindly smile and sat down in the grass again and took the sheet of paper and resting it on a yellow-covered book began to write these words: "I see the longing of the helper. One, two, three, four great perils shall strike at him. He shall not be afraid.
"What's that, young gentleman?" demanded Mr. Lowington, who happened to be within hearing; "what did you say?" "I said I felt like a sailor, sir." "What was the expression you used?" "I only said shiver my timbers, sir." "You stole that expression from a yellow-covered novel. Did you ever hear Mr. Peaks, who has been a sailor all his lifetime, use such language?"
"Now you talk like a man, Wilton," replied Shuffles. "You shall be a member of the league at once." "What's the league?" "The Chain League." "Upon my word, Shuffles, you have been reading yellow-covered novels to some purpose." "I didn't get this idea from a novel. I invented it myself." "The Chain League!" repeated Wilton, who was pleased with the title of the conspirators.
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