Sidney Benson Thorp

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Sidney Benson Thorp (1864-1943) published works such as The Yellow Book, Volume 13 — An Immortal. These writings evoke Longton, Freddy and poet.

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Sidney Benson Thorp, The Yellow Book, Volume 13 — An Immortal

“ The poet strained his eyes helplessly up and around, with difficulty disjoined his sticky lips, wrung his clammy hands together, and at last, in an insecure voice and with a singular hesitancy, asked:
"Are you fond of pictures?"
"No," rejoined Freddy, placidly; "but the first cousin of the wife of our gardener has a tame elephant."
"That is fortunate," answered Longton, suppressing with an effort the irritation which his friend's witticisms rarely failed to stir up. "Putting the elephant aside, however, for the moment the fact is, I am in a difficulty." ”

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Sidney Benson Thorp, The Yellow Book, Volume 13 — An Immortal

“ The heavy wrath of the gods had fallen upon him, and he was dumb: he must betake himself to the merest hack-work of anonymous journalism; and the bitterest drop in the cup of this set-back was the reflection that the tide was ebbing for one whom nature had framed unfit to profit by its flood. A poet and no man is a crushed worm endowed with understanding.
A tinkling hansom drew up at the door, and a moment after a well-dressed man came lightly up the stairs. ”

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Sidney Benson Thorp, The Yellow Book, Volume 13 — An Immortal

“ The appearance of Henry Longton's volume had been the literary event of a season. The new man had been recognised as standing in a solitude unapproachable by the twittering mob of a prolific generation. A great poet, who chanced to be also himself a great critic, had dared to stake his reputation upon the future of the new Immortal. ”

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Sidney Benson Thorp, The Yellow Book, Volume 13 — An Immortal

“ The poet started up, a prodigy of wrath.
"Ass!" he exclaimed. "It is life and death, I tell you. You call yourself a friend; will you do this nothing for me? I ask you for the last time."
"No." The answer was given in a tone of quiet obstinacy which, seldom heard by Freddy's intimates, never failed to carry conviction. "I will go no such fool's errand," he added, "for any man. And now I must be off. Good-bye. I'll look round again in a day or two, and I hope I shall find a rational creature."
For a moment, while he held the handle, he faltered; the spectacle might have moved commiseration ”

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Sidney Benson Thorp, The Yellow Book, Volume 13 — An Immortal

“ An older women, her companion, emerged and drew her away.
"How sweet!" murmured the student. "Wonder who she can be?" And he arose. *⁠*⁠*⁠*⁠* It was almost midnight when Freddy drove into Wickham Road, swelling with great words, primed with confidences.
About the door of 79 it surprised him to find a loose semi circular crowd, radiating from the sheen of police-buttons. With some difficulty he made his way to the officer, and inquired of him the reason of the assemblage. ”

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Sidney Benson Thorp, The Yellow Book, Volume 13 — An Immortal

“ Importunate came the hour when he must set forth once more to produce. A royalty on a limited edition may mount to a handsome dole of pocket-money, but it is not a chartered company. Longton's small capital had long since melted away ”

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Sidney Benson Thorp, The Yellow Book, Volume 13 — An Immortal

“ Above the din of perpetual harsh chatter, on this side and that, rose shrill voices into the extreme register of denunciation and vituperative challenge, buoyed higher to each response by antiphonal remonstrance in a lower octave. A mingled line of young men and women, in various stages of incipient intoxication, wavered past, and beneath the window of No. ”

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