The Descent of Man and Other Stories
e plebeian aroma of heated tram-cars and muddy street-crossings
into the corner of a silk-cushioned bergere, "I'v
e with her head propped on a langui
said her visit
head. "I was never bette
elp myself to
d glove before taking a buttered tea-ca
I said just now
st
Loose'? I came
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d Mrs. Clinch, se
e incommunicable; then, dropping into her seat again, she
ateness of the impulse in an atmosphere so charged with the portentous. "Do you mean that
urst out, with an ineffectual clutch at her h
riety of taking no more tea, crossed over to her cousin an
eded; "but you'll be surprised to
ed to it-" Mrs. Fethe
n so very nast
them!" the n
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cried Mrs. Feth
at I fancied from what you said before the book came ou
to everybody as a per
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ry o
Clinch, with an
t yourself!" her cousin
d wh
ren't so awf
me up to such a pitch that it wa
he worst. "Why not say at once," she sugge
ven't sa
e all s
oor P
the Bi
called it a
he wanted me to change it; but when he'd read the book he wrote that
rs. Clinch. "That was nothin
?" cried her cou
d he knew the quickest way to kill yours was to di
really think it'
Not nearly a
d, Bella-but t
cold remains of her tea-cake. "Let me see," she said, suddenly; "do you
e 'Radi
hey often do if a big paper sets the pace. Saves a lot of trouble
Bishop said!" cri
di
rough a Glass Brightly' was to have it
wo." She turned an illuminated eye on her cousin. "You o
suppose every book must stand or fall on its
' extracts from them. Even these are rapidly being replaced by paragraphs borrowed from the vocabulary of commerce. I often have to look twice before I am sure if I am reading a department-store advertisement or the announcement of a new batch of literature. The publishers will soon be having their 'fa
-?" Mrs. Fe
hose two novels in
sly. "There is so much more interest
the demand. The Bishop could run your novel
an't make hi
very well preach aga
se and picked
thankful that there's no demand for pessimism in the field of natural history.