'And I'm not very sure that I should accept it if it were made.

That fellow Fadge has all but ruined the paper.

It will amuse me to see how long it takes him to make Culpepper's new magazine a distinct failure.' A silence of five minutes ensued; then Yule said of a sudden.
'Where is Hinks's book ?' Marian reached it from a side table; under this roof, literature was regarded almost as a necessary part of table garnishing.
'I thought it would be bigger than this,' Yule muttered, as he opened the volume in a way peculiar to bookish men.
A page was turned down, as if to draw attention to some passage.

Yule put on his eyeglasses, and soon made a discovery which had the effect of completing the transformation of his visage.

His eyes glinted, his chin worked in pleasurable emotion.