'Men of that kind shouldn't make such mistakes,' said Charley. 'When one fellow attempts to cut up another fellow, he ought to take special care that he does it fairly.'
"By the author of 'Bathos.'"
'I didn't put that in,' said Charley, 'that was the publisher. I only put Charles Tudor.'
'Don't be so touchy, Charley, and let me go on,' said Mrs. Woodward.
'Well, fire away—it's good fun to you, I dare say, as the fly said to the spider.'
'Well, Charley, at any rate we are not the spiders,' said Linda. Katie said nothing, but she could not help feeling that she must look rather spiderish.
'Mr. Tudor has acquired some little reputation as a humorist, but as is so often the case with those who make us laugh, his very success will prove his ruin.'
'Then upon my word the Daily Delight is safe,' said Charley. 'It will never be ruined in that way.'
'There is an elaborate jocosity about him, a determined eternity of most industrious fun, which gives us the idea of a boy who is being rewarded for having duly learnt by rote his daily lesson out of Joe Miller.'
'Now, I'll bet ten to one he has never read the book at all—well, never mind—go on.'