Their Day in Court (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Their Day in Court Wearied alike of the sea and the consciousness of her own sophistication, the fairest of all readers dropped her book on the deck. The man beside her picked it up. "An old one? " he said. "As old as - that?" "Why not?" "There are so many new ones." "So many, yes; but new, no." "You think they can all say, with the returning spirits of men: ´We have been here before´?" "Precisely." "There remains," he smiled, "the Marconigram for the day. Shall I get it for you?" "Not for - oceans! If there is one thing more unoriginal than our literature it is our newspapers." Whereupon he left her still staring, sophisticated and therefore sad, into the sea, while he communed with himself upon the melancholy case of those who know so much of literature as it is in covers that they cannot find the literature that is in the life about them. For to those who have eyes and minds to see, the passing hours present such stuff as makes ridiculous the poverty of invention in our modern authors. One lady of our Central Park Faubourg may choose to exercise her prose and our patience by Jacobite imitations; this author may re-write the works of Mlle. de la Ramee, substituting chauffeurs for guardsmen; and other wordmongering opportunists may re-tell all the sagas of the vikings with money-bags taking the place of brawn. Granted that all this may make for some disgust, yet we should by no means despair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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