And he is going to dare to make the 'Herald' a daily.

Do you remember asking me why I had never done that?
It seemed rather a venture to try to compete with the Rouen papers in offering State and foreign news, but this young Gulliver has tacked onto the Associated Press, and means to print a quarto--that's eight pages, you know--once a week, Saturday, and a double sheet, four pages, on other mornings.

The daily venture begins next Monday." "Will it succeed ?" "Oh, no!" he laughed.
"You think not ?" Her interest in this dull business struck him as astonishing, and yet in character with her as he had known her in Plattville.

Then he wondered unhappily if she thought that talking of the "Herald" and learning things about the working of a country newspaper would help her to understand Brainard Macauley.
"Why have you let him go on with it ?" she asked.

"I suppose you have encouraged him ?" "Oh, yes, I encouraged him.