Mr. Meeson's Will

ISBN-13: 9781544650241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 178 str.

Henry Rider Haggard

Opis

No. 3 was one of the editors; a mild-eyed little man with blue spectacles. He had once been a writer of promise; but somehow Meeson's had got him for its own, and turned him into a publisher's hack. -Quite so, Sir, - he said humbly. -It is very bad-it is dreadful to think of Meeson's coming down to seven per cent-seven per cent - and he held up his hands. -Don't stand there like a stuck pig, No. 3, - said Mr. Meeson, fiercely; -but suggest something.- -Well, Sir, - said No. 3 more humbly than ever, for he was terribly afraid of his employer; -I think, perhaps, that somebody had better go to Australia, and see what can be done.