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CHAPTER III ROB GOES OUT INTO THE WORLD
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One evening, nearly a month after Rob Angus became 'single,' Mr. George Frederick Licquorish, editor and proprietor1 of the Silchester Mirror, was sitting in his office cutting advertisements out of the Silchester Argus, and pasting each on a separate sheet of paper. These advertisements had not been sent to the Mirror, and, as he thought this a pity, he meant, through his canvasser2, to call the attention of the advertisers to the omission3.
Mr. Licquorish was a stout4 little man with a benevolent5 countenance6, who wrote most of his leaders on the backs of old envelopes. Every few minutes he darted7 into the composing-room, with an alertness that was a libel on his genial8 face; and when he returned it was pleasant to observe the kindly9, good-natured manner in which he chaffed the printer's devil who was trying to light the fire. It was, however, also noticeable that what the devil said subsequently to another devil was—'But, you know, he wouldn't give me any sticks.'
The Mirror and the Argus are two daily newspapers published in Silchester, each of which has the largest circulation in the district, and is therefore much the better advertising10 medium. Silchester is the chief town of an English midland county, and the Mirror's business notepaper refers to it as the centre of a population of half a million souls.
The Mirror's offices are nearly crushed out of sight in a block of buildings, left in the middle of a street for town councils to pull down gradually. This island of houses, against which a sea of humanity beats daily, is cut in two by a narrow passage, off which several doors open. One of these leads up a dirty stair to the editorial and composing-rooms of the Daily Mirror, and down a dirty stair to its printing-rooms. It is the door at which you may hammer for an hour without any one's paying the least attention.
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soda
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讥笑,冷笑( sneer的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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凄惨地; 绝望地; 糟透地; 悲惨地 | |
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velvet
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adorned
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pulp
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