"I know you're in charge of the aesthetic department
of
chanel
bags the _Flag_," he said. "I had no idea you wrote the
leaders."
"Don't be absurd!" murmured Esther.
"I always told
Addie Raphael could never write so eloquently; didn't I, Addie? Ah, I see you're
blushing to find it fame, Miss Ansell."
Esther laughed, though a bit
annoyed. "How can you suspect me of writing orthodox leaders?" she
asked.
"Well, who else _is_ there?" urged Sidney, with mock _naivete_.
"I went down there once and saw the shanty. The editorial sanctum was crowded.
Poor Raphael was surrounded by the queerest
cheap chanel bags looking set of
creatures I ever clapped eyes on. There was a quaint lunatic in a check suit,
describing his apocalyptic visions; a dragoman with sore eyes and a grievance
against the Board of Guardians; a venerable son of Jerusalem with a most
artistic white beard, who had covered the editorial table with carved nick-nacks
in olive and sandal-wood; an inventor who had squared the circle and the problem
of perpetual motion, but could not support himself; a Roumanian exile with a
scheme for fertilizing
chanel bags outlet Palestine; and
a wild-eyed hatchet-faced Hebrew poet who told me I was a famous patron of
learning, and sent me his book soon after with a Hebrew inscription which I
couldn't read, and a request for a cheque which I didn't write. I thought I just
capped the company of oddities, when in came a sallow red-haired chap, with the
extraordinary name of Karlkammer, and kicked up a deuce of a shine with Raphael
for altering his letter. Raphael mildly hinted that the letter was
chanel bags for
cheap written in such unintelligible English that he had to grapple
with it for an hour before he could reduce it to the coherence demanded of
print. But it was no use; it seems Raphael had made him say something heterodox
he didn't mean, and he insisted on being allowed to reply to his own letter! He
had brought the counter-blast with him; six sheets of foolscap with all the t's
uncrossed, and insisted on signing it with his own name. I said, 'Why not?
Set
cheap louis vuitton bags a
Karlkammer to answer to a Karlkammer.' But Raphael said it would make the paper
a laughing-stock, and between the dread of that and the consciousness of having
done the man a wrong, he was quite unhappy. He treats all his visitors with
angelic consideration, when in another newspaper office the very office-boy
would snub them. Of course, nobody has a bit of consideration for him or his
time or his purse."