It so happens that we have made a large profit on your book: indeed, I don't mind telling you that we have got as much as we gave you back from America for the sale of the American rights; but that is no ground for your coming to ask for more money than you agreed to accept.

I never heard of such a thing in the whole course of my professional experience; never!" and he paused, and once more eyed her sternly.
"At any rate, there ought to be something to come to me from the rights of translation--I saw in the paper that the book was to be translated into French and German," said Augusta, faintly.
"Oh! yes, no doubt--Eustace, oblige me by touching the bell." The young gentleman did so, and a tall, melancholy-looking clerk appeared.
"No.

18," snarled Mr.Meeson, in the tone of peculiar amiability that he reserved for his employee's, "make out the translation account of 'Jemima's Vow,' and fill up a cheque of balance due to the author." No.

18 vanished like a thin, unhappy ghost, and Mr.Meeson once more addressed the girl before him.

"If you want money, Miss Smithers," he said, "you had better write us another book.