Their Silver Wedding Journey

Their Silver Wedding Journey

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Title: Their Silver Wedding Journey, Complete
Author: William Dean Howells
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THEIR SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY, Complete
By William Dean Howells

Part I.

I.
"You need the rest," said the Business End; "and your wife wants you
to go, as well as your doctor. Besides, it's your Sabbatical year, and you,
could send back a lot of stuff for the magazine."
"Is that your notion of a Sabbatical year?" asked the editor.
"No; I throw that out as a bait to your conscience. You needn't write a
line while you're gone. I wish you wouldn't for your own sake;
although every number that hasn't got you in it is a back number for
me."
"That's very nice of you, Fulkerson," said the editor. "I suppose you
realize that it's nine years since we took 'Every Other Week' from
Dryfoos?"
"Well, that makes it all the more Sabbatical," said Fulkerson. "The two
extra years that you've put in here, over and above the old style
Sabbatical seven, are just so much more to your credit. It was your
right to go, two years ago, and now it's your duty. Couldn't you look at
it in that light?"
"I dare say Mrs. March could," the editor assented. "I don't believe she
could be brought to regard it as a pleasure on any other terms."
"Of course not," said Fulkerson. "If you won't take a year, take three
months, and call it a Sabbatical summer; but go, anyway. You can
make up half a dozen numbers ahead, and Tom, here, knows your ways
so well that you needn't think about 'Every Other Week' from the time
you start till the time you try to bribe the customs inspector when you
get back. I can take a hack at the editing myself, if Tom's inspiration
gives out, and put a little of my advertising fire into the thing." He laid
his hand on the shoulder of the young fellow who stood smiling by, and
pushed and shook him in the liking there was between them. "Now you
go, March! Mrs. Fulkerson feels just as I do about it; we had our outing
last year, and we want Mrs. March and you to have yours. You