England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction; English fiction -- 20th century; Journalists -- Fiction
Her thought was to comfort both of them, and he accepted it gladly. The
thought came to him that there was no one now to mind how he spent his
Sundays. Molly would have minded. She would have thought it odd, not
proper, hardly right. Having lost her partly on this very account, he
threw himself with the more fervour into this mission of help and
healing to another and himself. His loss did not thus seem such utter
waste, the emptiness of the long days not so blank.
CHAPTER XIV.
_UNITY_.
The office of _Unity_ was a room on the top floor of the Denisons’
publishing house. It looked out on Fleet Street, opposite Chancery Lane.
Sitting there, Eddy, when not otherwise engaged (he and Arnold were
joint editors of _Unity_) watched the rushing tide far below, the people
crowding by. There with the tide went the business men, the lawyers, the
newspaper people, who made thought and ensued it, the sellers and the
buyers. Each had his and her own interests, his and her own irons in the
fire. They wanted none of other people’s; often they resented other
people’s. Yet, looked at long enough ahead (one of the editors in his
trite way mused) all interests must be the same in the end. No state,
surely, could thrive, divided into factions, one faction spoiling
another. They must needs have a common aim, find a heterogeneous city of
peace. So _Unity_, gaily flinging down barriers, cheerily bestriding
walls, with one foot planted in each neighbouring and antagonistic
garden--_Unity_, so sympathetic with all causes, so ably written, so
versatile, must surely succeed.
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