THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.
A prominent New York lawyer says that m his ejtrly professional days he was glad to expand his slender income by bill-collecting;; On one occasion he liad a bill against a man who, iricidehtally, has since, achieved a success -which puts him beyond tlie necessity of such an indefinite statement as-! he made on that occasion. The young lawyer found him' with his feet propped upon his desk, while he gazed dreamily at the ceiling through a cloud of tobacco smoke.
"But, really, _ir, j must insist tliat you give me. some definite idea'aß to when you will settle," tlie lawyer said, after having been Igently rebuffed. Tlie. author consented to lower his eyes and to wave his pipe languidly. "Why, certainly, sir-Mhough tliere seems to me to be a rather unnecessary cemmohon about this trifle," lie drawled I will pay the bill as toon as I think of jt after receiving the money which a publisher will pay me m case he accepts the novel whibh T will write and send Win just as soon as I feel m an energetic mood after a really good idea for a plot has occurred to iritel"— Harper's Weekly
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)
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