[All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. Jerome]@TWC D-Link bookAll Roads Lead to Calvary CHAPTER IV 27/39
Be careful not to land me in a libel suit.
Call the whole Bench of Bishops hypocrites, and all the ground landlords thieves, if you will: but don't mention names.
And don't get me into trouble with the police. Beyond that, I shan't interfere with you." She was about to speak. "One stipulation," he went on, "that every article is headed with your photograph." He read the sudden dismay in her eyes. "How else do you think you are going to attract their attention ?" he asked her.
"By your eloquence! Hundreds of men and women as eloquent as you could ever be are shouting to them every day.
Who takes any notice of them? Why should they listen any the more to you--another cranky highbrow: some old maid, most likely, with a bony throat and a beaky nose.
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