He used a certain penetrative mildness of tone in saying that 'he hoped the book would succeed': it deserved to; it was original; but the originality might tell against it.

All would depend upon a favourable launching of such a book.

'Mrs.Warwick?
Mrs.Warwick ?' said the most influential of editors, Mr.Marcus Tonans; 'what! that singularly handsome woman ?..

The Dannisburgh affair ?...

She's Whitmonby's heroine.
If she writes as cleverly as she talks, her work is worth trumpeting.' He promised to see that it went into good hands for the review, and a prompt review--an essential point; none of your long digestions of the contents.
Diana's indefatigable friend had fair assurances that her book would be noticed before it dropped dead to the public appetite for novelty.