Warrington and Pendennis) "may find that there is a humble contributor to
the Pall Mall Gazette, whose name, may be, the amateur shall one day
reckon even higher than their own. Mr. Warrington I do not say so much--
he is an able man, sir, an able man;--but there is that about your
exceedin self-satisfied friend, Mr. Arthur Pendennis, which--well, well--
let time show. You did not--get the--hem--paper at Rome and Naples, I
suppose?"
"Forbidden by the Inquisition," says Clive, delighted; "and at Naples the
king furious against it."
"I don't wonder they don't like it at Rome, sir. There's serious matter
in it which may set the prelates of a certain Church rather in a tremor.
You haven't read--the--ahem--the Pulpit Pencillings in the P. M. G.?
Slight sketches, mental and corporeal, of our chief divines now in
London--and signed Latimer?"
"I don't do much in that way," said Clive.
"So much the worse for you, my young friend. Not that I mean to judge any
other fellow harshly--I mean any other fellow sinner harshly--or that I
mean that those Pulpit Pencillings would be likely to do you any great
good.
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