H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole

Name: The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920) — Chapter 7
Author: H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole

The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

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“The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920) — Chapter 7”, published in 1920, is a work by H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole. It explores elements such as Tozer, Bobby and Carlton Mansions.

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ They lunched together and discussed dogs, girls, and mutual friends. It was like old times again, but over the liqueurs and over the cigarette smoke there suddenly appeared to Bobby the vision of Tozer. He said good-by to the affluent one and departed. “I've got to work,” said he.
His momentary lapse from the direction of the target only served to pull him together, and it seemed, now, as though the luncheon and the lapse had made things easier. He told himself that if he hadn't brains enough to scare up some sort of plot for a six-shilling novel, he had better drown himself. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Bobby was an orphan, an Oxford man, without a degree, and with a taste for literature and fine clothes. He was absolutely irresponsible. Five hundred a year, derived from a relative, of whose only sister he was the son, and an instinct for bridge that was worth another two hundred and fifty, supported Bobby in a sort of lame way, assisted by friends, confiding tailors, and bootmakers, and a genial money lender who was also a cigar merchant. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Oxford! Oh, grander and grander! The book should begin at Oxford with a fresh and vigorous picture of university life. Tozer would come in and a host of others. Then, after Oxford—ah, there was the rub! The story that had begun so brightly suddenly ceased. A character and a situation do not make a story.
They had reached the bank—as if by derision. He got off the omnibus and got on a westbound one harking back to the land he knew. He remembered the expression “racking one's brains to find a plot.” ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ I know you. You're a good sort, Bobby, but you're in the wrong set. You couldn't keep the pace. You've loads of cleverness and you're going to rot. Work!”
“How?”
“Write,” said Tozer, who believed in Bobby and hated to see him going to waste. “Write! I've always been urging you to settle down and write.”
“I made five pounds ten last year writing,” said Bobby.
“I know—articles on old French poetry and so on. You've got to write fiction. You can do it. That little story you wrote for Tillson's was ripping.”
“The devil of it is,” said Bobby, “I can't find plots. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ A task to Bobby meant a thing disagreeable to do, and the elegant volumes of minor poets, copies of the yellow books, and vellum-bound editions of belles lettres were saying to him: “You've got to write a novel, my boy, a good Mudie novel; the sort of novel the Tozers of life will pay for. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Only fictional literature pays.
He was thinking more of “Monte Cristo” than of his own position as he dressed. The fact that he had to look out for other rooms worried him as an uncomfortable business to be performed, but not much. If he couldn't get other rooms that day he could always stay with Tozer. Tozer was an Oxford man with chambers in the Albany—chambers always open to Bobby at any hour—a sure stand-by in trouble. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ People take chambers in Carlton Mansions and vanish. The fact is never reported to the Society of Psychical Research, the levitation being always accountable for by solid reasons. To stop them from vanishing before their rent is paid they have to pay their rent in advance. No credit is given under any circumstances. This seems hard, yet there are compensating advantages that the rent is low, the service good, and the address taking.
Bobby Ravenshaw had chosen to live in Carlton Mansions because it was the cheapest place he could get near the gayest place in town. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Her publishers could have told you that by the way she gripped her rights when they tried to cheat her of them, for, despite her wondrous eyes and wild air and the fact that she was a genius, she was practical as well as tenacious in hold. ”

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