I!
Rebecca. How can you think of such a thing!
Kroll. I can quite understand your having a horror of public
meetings and being unwilling to expose yourself to the mercies of
the rabble that frequents them. But an editor's work, which is
carried on in much greater privacy, or rather--
Rosmer. No, no, my dear fellow, you must not ask that of me.
Kroll. It would give me the greatest pleasure to have a try at
work of that sort myself--only it would be quite out of the
question for me; I am already saddled with such an endless number
of duties. You, on the other hand, who are no longer hampered by
any official duties, might--. Of course the rest of us would give
you all the help in our power.
Rosmer. I cannot do it, Kroll. I am not fitted for it.
Kroll. Not fitted for it? That was just what you said when your
father got you your living.
Rosmer. I was quite right; and that was why I resigned it, too.
Kroll. Well, if you only make as good an editor as you did a
parson, we shall be quite satisfied.
Rosmer. My dear Kroll--once for all--I cannot do it.
Kroll. Well, then, I suppose you will give us the use of your
name, at all events?
Rosmer. My name?
Kroll. Yes, the mere fact of John Rosmer's name being connected
with it will be a great advantage to the paper. We others are
looked upon as pronounced partisans. I myself even have the
reputation of being a wicked fanatic, I am told.
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