subject," returned the Idiot, "because I never read _Robert Els_--" "Never read it?" ejaculated the School-master, a look of triumph in his eyes. "Why, everybody has read _Elsmere_ that pretends to have read anything," asserted the Bibliomaniac. "Of course," put in the landlady, with a scornful laugh. "Well, I didn't," said the Idiot, nonchalantly. "The same ground was gone over two years before in Burrows's great story, _Is It, or Is It Not?_ and anybody who ever read Clink's books on the _Non-Existent as Opposed to What Is_, knows where Burrows got his points. Burrows's story was a perfect marvel. I don't know how many editions it went through in England, and when it was translated into French by Madame Tournay, it simply set the French wild." "Great Scott!" whispered the Bibliomaniac, desperately, "I'm afraid we've been barking up the wrong tree." "You've read Clink, I suppose?" asked the Idiot, turning to the School-master. "Y--yes," returned the School-master, blushing deeply. The Idiot looked surprised, and tried to conceal a smile by sipping his coffee from a spoon. "And Burrows?" "No," returned the School-master, humbly. "I never read Burrows." "Well, you ought to. It's a great book, and it's the one _Robert Elsmere_ is taken from--same ideas all through, I'm told--that's why I did
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