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I should
think he would.'
'About as much as my grandmother; but if the Editor of the Jupiter were
to be taken ill, it would work quite a commotion. For myself I should
be glad on public grounds because I don't like his mode of business.
But it would have an effect because he is a leading man.'
'I don't see what all this leads to, Mr Stanbury.'
'Only to this, that we who write for the press think that our calling is
recognised, and must be recognised, as a profession. Talk of permanence,
Sir Marmaduke; are not the newspapers permanent? Do not they come out
regularly every day, and more of them, and still more of them, are
always coming out? You do not expect a collapse among them.'
'There will be plenty of newspapers, I do not doubt more than plenty,
perhaps.'
'Somebody must write them, and the writers will be paid.'
'Anybody could write the most of them, I should say.'
'I wish you would try, Sir Marmaduke. Just try your hand at a leading
article to-night, and read it yourself tomorrow morning.


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