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Sir Dominick Ferrand
by Henry James

"There are several objections to it, but I'll take it if you'll alter it," Mr.
Locket's rather curt note had said; and there was no waste of words in
the postscript in which he had added: "If you'll come in and see me, I'll
show you what I mean." This communication had reached Jersey Villas
by the first post, and Peter Baron had scarcely swallowed his leathery
muffin before he got into motion to obey the editorial behest. He knew
that such precipitation looked eager, and he had no desire to look
eager--it was not in his interest; but how could he maintain a godlike
calm, principled though he was in favour of it, the first time one of the
great magazines had accepted, even with a cruel reservation, a
specimen of his ardent young genius?
It was not till, like a child with a sea-shell at his ear, he began to be
aware of the great roar of the "underground," that, in his third-class
carriage, the cruelty of the reservation penetrated, with the taste of acrid
smoke, to his inner sense. It was really degrading to be eager in the face
of having to "alter." Peter Baron tried to figure to himself at that
moment that he was not flying to betray the extremity of his need, but
hurrying to fight for some of those passages of superior boldness which
were exactly what the conductor of the "Promiscuous Review" would
be sure to be down upon. He made believe--as if to the greasy
fellow-passenger opposite--that he felt indignant; but he saw that to the

small round eye of this still more downtrodden brother he represented
selfish success. He would have liked to linger in the conception that he
had been "approached" by the Promiscuous; but whatever might be
thought in the office of that periodical of some of his flights of fancy,
there was no want of vividness in his occasional suspicion that he
passed there for a familiar bore. The only thing that was clearly
flattering was the fact that the Promiscuous rarely published fiction. He
should therefore be associated with a deviation from a solemn habit,
and that would more