just how "it had first come to him."

Meanwhile the success of the Scientific Sermons was facilitating his
family relations. His photograph in the _Inglenook_, to which the
lady of the note-book had succeeded in appending a vivid interview,
carried his fame to circles inaccessible even to "The Vital Thing";
and the Professor found himself the man of the hour. He soon grew
used to the functions of the office, and gave out hundred-dollar
interviews on every subject, from labour-strikes to Babism, with a
frequency which reacted agreeably on the domestic exchequer.
Presently his head began to figure in the advertising pages of the
magazines. Admiring readers learned the name of the only
breakfast-food in use at his table, of the ink with which "The Vital
Thing" had been written, the soap with which the author's hands were
washed, and the tissue-builder which fortified him for further
effort. These confidences endeared the Professor to millions of
readers, and his head passed in due course from the magazine and the
newspaper to the biscuit-tin and the chocolate-box.






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