This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... Private office of Sir Charles Worgan. Doors R., L., and baric centre. Utmost possible richness of office furniture. Grand central desk, tenth dictaphone and telephone. Side tables, full of papers, correspondence, etc. Large date-calendar prominent. A red disk showing on wall at back. General air of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... Private office of Sir Charles Worgan. Doors R., L., and baric centre. Utmost possible richness of office furniture. Grand central desk, tenth dictaphone and telephone. Side tables, full of papers, correspondence, etc. Large date-calendar prominent. A red disk showing on wall at back. General air of orderliness and great activity. Sir Charles Worgan and Kendrick are opposite each other at central desk, with two piles of assorted magazines and journals on the desk. Kendrick is smoking a large cigar. Time, afternoon, November. Kendrick. Now then, there's this confounded Sabbath Chimes! [picking up a periodical from the pile to his left hand]. -Sir C. Well, what's it doing? Kendrick [referring to a list of figures]. Eighteen thousand. Sir C. It's dropping, then. Kendrick. Dropping? I should say it was! But it never was any real good. We bought it for a song and Sir C. [interrupting him sharply]. That's no reason! We bought the Evening Courier when its shares were at sixpence, and now it's earning a thousand pounds a week. Kendrick. Yes, but the Courier isn't religious. You wouldn't call a halfpenny evening paper exactly religious, would you? Sir C. What's that got to do with it? Do you mean to say there isn't a religious public? Kendrick. I've never met it [flicking ash off his cigar]. Sir C. [very slightly nettled]. Now look here, Kendrick, we don't want to waste time in f acetiousness. We still have quite twenty papers to go through [fingering pile]. Kendrick [very slightly more deferential]. I'm not joking, Sir Charles. What I say is--there are two things that are absolutely U.P. in this country; one is limericks, and the other is religion. Sir C. That be damned! No one ever expected limericks to last; but let me tell you there's a...
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