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SELECTING A MODEL
By F. A. USSING.
The novelist sat at his desk writing
when his wife suddenly laid her hand
on his shoulder He looked up at her.
“What is the matter, dear?”
“Oh, it is my. family again. Uncle
Hans Peter’s feelings have been hurt
by your last short story.”
“His feelings have been hurt? I do
not quite understand.”
“Well, you remember that the name
of th£ villain in it is Hans Peter.”
“And then?”
“That has been enough to hurt him
dreadfully.”
“I don’t quite understand yet. Is
Uncle Hans Peter then such a disgust
ing person as the type I describe?”
“No, not at all. But recently you !
wrote another story in which one of
the persons was a certain merchant
whom you called Theobald Olarson, ;
though you knew that Cousin Theo
bald—”
“Good Lord, I had quite forgotten
that you had a cousin Theobald. I
never thought of it when I wrote the
story, but my merchant was a hypo
crite and a swindler and not the least
bit like your cousin.”
“Of course not, but one incident
cnains lisen 10 auuuier. iuu remem
ber the story you wrote about the ille
gitimate child? Agnes thought that
was a slap in her face.”
“Once more I don’t follow you.”
“You cannot have forgotten that her
first baby was born eight months after
her wedding.”
“Now you must forgive me, dear. I
never for a moment thought of count
ing the months. I took the baby’s
birth as a most natural event.”
The novelist’s wife kissed him ten
derly.
“You will promise me never to use
my relatives as models?”
“Models, darling. I never use mod
els. People think so in their own silly
minds. But I promise I shall be verv
careful not to hurt the feelings of
either Uncle Hans or Cousin Theobald
or Sister Agnes. I hope there are no
usurers in your family.”
“No.”
Good. Besides these three, my nov
el tells of a certain dp per manufactur
er, who is a most disgusting hypocrite,
who is in love with the usurer’s beau
tiful daughter and whom the usurer
favors because of hi= wealth Then*
comes the conflict and the young man
wins.”
The novelist wrote his famous book,
“The Usurer’s Daughter.” which cre
ated such a sensatiorixin the literary
world. The magazine rights were sold
to the “Copenhagen Magazine.”
When he received his check from
the editor of the magazine he present
ed his wife with a diamond ring and
took her to the Royal theater in the
evening.
Two months later the book came
out, and tbe next day a distant relative
of the author’s wife called to see her.
She received him very coldly, hav
ing alwTays disliked him most cordial
ly, but he did not seem to notice it.
He walked straight up to her and
threw7 a copy of the Copenhagen Maga
zine on the table in front of her.
“Is your husband in?” he asked.
“No. he is not.” she replied.
“He is a scoundrel.” he hissed. “In
this story he calls me a usurer. There
is not the slightest doubt th^it he
means me: As if I were not entitled
to charge a miserable 2 per cent a
month on the security I get. I don’t
see that it is any of his business, and
I hope you will please tell him so.
Good-by.” I ^ •
While the young couDle were at the
breakfast table the bell rang out
Hiarply. It was father-in-law of
the novelist, the well-known minister
of a fashionable church, a stout,
smooth-shaven man with gold-rimmed
I
meets cles~
“You miserable hound,” he hissed,
and his eyes shot fire.
“What is the matter?”
The reverend gentleman threw a
copy of the book on the table.
“A gentleman does not use models
for the person in his books, you rascal.
You write here that I am a hypocrite
who goes to church in the morning and
cpend my evenings with girls of the
streets in private rooms of night res
taurants. You cannot deny it. You
mean me.”
The novelist stared at the angry
man, dumfounded.
The minister went on:
“What you write is true enough,
very true indeed, but it is the duty of
a minister of the church to study vice
in order to be able to denounce it from i
the pulpit, and that is what I have
been doing. How could I speak of im
morality unless I had studied it close
b.v and gathered experience? But
v ords fail me to express what I think
of your conduct, sir.”
He rushed out of the room.
In the evening a letter came from i
Cousin Theobald, who wrote:
“Tomorrow I shall sue your husb. id j
for once more making use of niv name i
in his novels and insinuating that my
father-in-law is a usurer, when as a
matter of fact he has never charged
more than 14 per cent interest on the
few loans he has ever made.”
Here the novelist threw up his ,
hands in despair and vowed that he
would go abroad with his wife for a i
- ear while writing his next novel.
Gentle Sarcasm.
She—Well, perhaps I am inclined to
be hasty in my speech, dear. I shall
'rv in future to weigh my words.
He—YeS do, and don’t give such
generous measures.
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