Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Name: Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield, Jr.
Author: Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield… (1898)

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“Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield, Jr.”, published in 1898, is a work by Elizabeth Garver Jordan. It explores elements such as Chesterfield, Davidson and Neville.

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Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield… (1898)

“ Being wise beyond his years, Chesterfield mentioned to no one his admiration for "The Searchlight's" leading woman artist. He merely changed his theories regarding the ideal of feminine beauty, reconstructing them on the lines of the perfect realization daily resented to him. Thus, his sister, a "sales lady" in a Sixth Avenue shop, was surprised by an urgent request from her brother to wear her hair "parted down the middle and slicked on the sides," this being Chesterfield's description of Miss Neville's severely simple coiffure. ”

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Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield… (1898)

“ From the anteroom in which young Chesterfield sat, doors led to the respective rooms of the managing editor, the city editor, the Sunday editor, and the editor of the humorous supplement. During the warm days of summer these doors were usually open, the slight figure of the youthful sentinel being regarded as a wholly sufficient barrier between visitors and their editorial goal. ”

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Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield… (1898)

“ Kelly looked up with an apolegetic smile.
"Yes, it was," he said, "and we owe you an apology, Davidson. We found a nasty little joke about 'The Searchlight' on my desk and thought you had written it and all that 'Funmaker' stuff. Marbury was hot about it, and there was a heap of trouble ahead of you, when this little rat [indicating Chesterfield] comes and owns up to it because he heard us talking about it as yours. He slipped it into the stuff on my desk." He turned to the boy with sudden suspicion. "How did you get it typewritten?" he asked. ”

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Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield… (1898)

“ This joke is a particularly weak one, but it's strong enough to cut off Davidson's head."
"Of course," acquiesced the editor of the humorous supplement. He hesitated a moment. "He's going to be married next month, to Miss Neville, is n't he?" he added slowly.
"That's all right," said the Sunday editor, curtly. "We can't help that. I'm sorry for her, but we can't have a man around the shop who is doing the sneak act and libelling the Chief. Let 'The Funmaker' take him on. It would be as much as our own heads are worth to try and hush this up now. Davidson must go. That's all there is to it." ”

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Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield… (1898)

“ As he read it over before sealing the envelope the closing phrase struck him as beautifully felicitous. "She 'll see that her being engaged don't make no difference in my feelings," he told himself. Then he pondered for a long time. ”

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Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield… (1898)

“ The anteroom was empty save for the two. The doors behind them were closed, and they were, for the moment, safe from observation.
"By Jove, that was a close call!" said Davidson, wiping his face and dropping his happy-go-lucky air. "Chesterfield, you 're a little trump! I don't know why the dickens you did this thing for me, but I'm awfully grateful to you. If they had found me out it would have been all up with John Davidson. I 'll make it up to you, somehow, and if they had 'fired' you, I would have found another place for you. But they won't—Kelly told me so. You 're too popular. ”

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Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Tales of the City Room — The Love Affair of Chesterfield… (1898)

“ Chesterfield was in the office of the latter, looking over the files for the benefit of an indignant contributor who was certain his article had been printed and not paid for. The first words the boy overheard made him prick up his ears.
"I'm surprised to find that it's Davidson," the humorous editor was saying. "It's such a sneaking, low sort of performance. I did n't think he was capable of it. But here is proof enough to convict any man. ”

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