"You ought to have stuck up for that woman as if she'd been your own mother.
Lord! you fellows don't know how to run a magazine.

You ought to let ME sit on that chair and tackle your customers." "What would you have done, Jack ?" asked the editor, much amused to find that his hitherto invincible hero was not above the ordinary human weakness of offering advice as to editorial conduct.
"Done ?" reflected Jack.

"Well, first, sonny, I shouldn't keep a revolver in a drawer that I had to OPEN to get at." "But what would you have said ?" "I should simply have asked him what was the price of lumber at Mendocino," said Jack, sweetly, "and when he told me, I should have said that the samples he was offering out of his own head wouldn't suit.

You see, you don't want any trifling in such matters.

You write well enough, my boy," continued he, turning over his paper, "but what you're lacking in is editorial dignity.