was the fashionable pronunciation of "fellow".) For myself, I would listen always with admiration. Always with an admiration that I have never since recaptured. And if there were admirablenesses that did not seem to me to fit in with the given scene I could at least, at the end of the reading, say with perfect sincerity: "Wonderful! How you do things! " before beginning on: "But don't you perhaps think. And I really do not believe that either my Collaborator or myself ever made an objection which was not jointly sustained. That is not quarrels. When I last looked through the bound proofs of Romance I was struck with the fact that whereas my Collaborator eliminated almost every word of action and eighty percent of the conversations by myself, I supplied almost all the descriptive passages of the really collaborated parts and such softer senti ment as was called for. And my Collaborator let them get through. All this took place long ago; most of it in another century during another reign; whilst an earlier but not less haughty and proud generation were passing away. F. M. F. |