...
I must say, though, that the behaviour of these three was not
characteristic ... generally the newspaper men and women were most
considerate and courteous ... even when they afterward wrote unpleasant
articles about us. And often I have had them blue-pencil wild statements
I had made, which, on second thought, I wished withdrawn ... and during
all the uproar I never had a reporter break his word, once given.
"Say, Mr. Gregory, that's great stuff, do let us keep that in the
interview."
"Please, boys, draw your pencil through that ... it doesn't sound the
way I meant it."
"Oh, all right"--a sigh--"but it's a shame to leave it out."
The last and final outrage--perpetrated by the papers by orders from
above, I am sure....
Even the second uproar had died down.
Always the "natives" in West Grove and round about, our neighbours,
behaved considerately, let us alone ... we were greeted politely
wherever we went....
But now, Mrs. Rond informed me, strange men were appearing on the street
corners, conducting a regular soapbox campaign against us....
Some of them were seen to get on and off trains going to and coming from
New York....
Goaded and spurred by these mysterious outsiders, the village people
began to act aloof, and the more ignorant of them sullen toward us ...
but as yet it was only in the air, nothing concrete to lay hold of.
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