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He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
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additional burden from other employment than that of his profession.
After that, by some chance, he had become acquainted with the editor
of the Daily Record, and by degrees had taken to the writing of
articles. He had been told by all his friends, and especially by
Trevelyan, that if he did this, he might as well sell his gown and
wig. He declared, in reply, that he had no objection to sell his
gown and wig. He did not see how he should ever make more money out
of them than he would do by such sale. But for the articles which
he wrote, he received instant payment, a process which he found to
be most consolatory, most comfortable, and, as he said to Trevelyan,
as warm to him as a blanket in winter.

Trevelyan, who was a year younger than Stanbury, had taken upon
himself to be very angry. He professed that he did not think much
of the trade of a journalist, and told Stanbury that he was sinking
from the highest to almost the lowest business by which an educated
man and a gentleman could earn his bread. Stanbury had simply replied
that he saw some bread on the one side, but none on the other; and
that bread from some side was indispensable to him. Then there had
come to be that famous war between Great Britain and the republic
of Patagonia, and Hugh Stanbury had been sent out as a special
correspondent by the editor and proprietor of the Daily Record.
His letters had been much read, and had called up a great deal of
newspaper pugnacity. He had made important statements which had
been flatly denied, and found to be utterly false; which again had
been warmly reasserted and proved to be most remarkably true to
the letter. In this way the correspondence, and he as its author,
became so much talked about that, on his return to England, he did
actually sell his gown and, wig and declare to his friends and to
Trevelyan among the number that he intended to look to journalism
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