Fadge

‘I’ll make an opportunity of talking about your books to Fadge.

New Grub Street 2003

Fadge and the man who looks after the minor notices.

New Grub Street 2003

The rumour soon spread that Alfred Yule was to succeed Fadge in the direction of The Study, with the necessary consequence that Yule found himself an object of affectionate interest to a great many people of whom he knew little or nothing.

New Grub Street 2003

Of course there are men, like Fadge, who seem only to grow meaner the more prosperous they are; but these are exceptions.

New Grub Street 2003

The Study contained each week certain columns of flying gossip, and when he thought of this, Yule also thought of Clement Fadge, and sundry other of his worst enemies.

New Grub Street 2003

Concerning the authorship there was no mystery, and Alfred Yule had the indiscretion to make a violent reply, a savage assault upon Fadge, in the columns of The Balance.

New Grub Street 2003

Such a letter, coming under the notice of the great Fadge, might do its writer serious harm.

New Grub Street 2003

Whether or not the young man understood how relentless the hostility was between Yule and Fadge mattered little; the probability was that he knew all about it.

New Grub Street 2003

Now this letter gave me a fit of laughter; not only because of those precious reviews, but because Alfred Yule had been telling me all about this same editor, who rejoices in the name of Fadge.

New Grub Street 2003

I hope somebody will make it an opportunity to have a hit at that ruffian Fadge.

New Grub Street 2003