At the end of October appeared an authoritative announcement that Fadge's successor would be--not Alfred Yule, but a gentleman who till of late had been quietly working as a sub-editor in the provinces, and who had neither friendships nor enmities among the people of the London literary press.

A young man, comparatively fresh from the university, and said to be strong in pure scholarship.

The choice, as you are aware, proved a good one, and The Study became an organ of more repute than ever.
Yule had been secretly conscious that it was not to men such as he that positions of this kind are nowadays entrusted.

He tried to persuade himself that he was not disappointed.

But when Mr Quarmby approached him with blank face, he spoke certain wrathful words which long rankled in that worthy's mind.