That'll give you some faint notion of the magnificence of his cheek." Stables was impressed.

He wondered what sort of young man it could be who had the moral courage to oppose Dicky Pilkington at such a moment.
He could not have done it himself.

Dicky Pilkington was the great and mysterious power at the back of _The Planet_.
"But this isn't the end of it.

I told him, for his future guidance and encouragement, that he had mistaken cause and effect--that little variety _artistes_, like other people, are not popular because they are written about, but written about because they are popular--that _The Planet_ is the organ of public opinion, not of private opinions; in short, that he wasn't in it, at all.

I thought I'd sat on him till he was about flat--and the very next week he comes bounding in with his _Saturnalia_, as he calls them." "That was your moment.