The first thing the Interviewer had to do was to account for his visiting a person who had not asked to make his acquaintance, and who was living as a recluse.
The Interviewer had attempted the riddle of the Sphinx, and had failed to get the first hint of its solution.
The Interviewer smiled, too, and thought he had his man, sure, at last.
The truth was that she had happened to meet the Interviewer at the Library, one day, and she was offended by the long, searching stare with which that individual had honored her.
The Interviewer asked all sorts of questions about everybody in the village.
As the Interviewer ran his eye over them, he found that he could make very little out of what their backs taught him.
The Secretary asked the Interviewerif he knew the young gentleman who called himself Maurice Kirkwood.
The Interviewersaid he had never been there yet, but he hoped he should go there, one of these years, "suppose you studied art and antiquities while you were there?
The Interviewer had sense and tact enough not to offer him an orange, and so shift the balance of obligation.
The Interviewer presented himself the next morning, after finishing his breakfast and his cigar, feeling reasonably sure of finding Mr. Kirkwood at home, as he proved to be.
The Interviewerwatched one of these fruit-sellers, and saw that his hand-cart stopped opposite the house where, as he knew, Maurice Kirkwood was living.
The Interviewer had just remembered that he had two or three old battered bits of copper which he had picked up at a tollman's, where they had been passed off for cents.
If the Interviewer got hold of it, how "The People's Perennial and Household Inquisitor" would blaze with capitals in its next issue!
Meanwhile, the interviewer was excitedly going the round of his party to exhibit his trophy.
His eyes wandered from his interviewer to scan the faces of the passengers, and catching sight of me made as if to rise and join me.
When we were back in town I told Wilde my own adventure with the interviewerafter the former had left the boat.
For a couple of minutes there was silence, and I thought the interviewer was gone.
What I actually said to the interviewer was "until some form of selection improves it.
The writer then goes on: "These words must have struck the interviewer like the crack of doom.
Do not shout victory, either, because you have succeeded in getting rid of the interviewer without replying to his questions.
The courage, too, with which the interviewer braves rebuffs, and the philosophy with which he pockets abuse, are nothing short of admirable.
On the other hand, if I submit to the interview as the best way of keeping it within bounds, the "touches of colour" which the interviewer generally thinks it necessary to add, are pretty sure to land me in bother and misunderstanding.
The interviewer in question tackled me in the hotel where the Sheriff pays the execution fee; entering the room immediately after I had been paid, and just as the Sheriff was driving off.
During the visit of the interviewer a white girl brought a tray with a measuring cup of coffee and two slices of bread with butter and fruit spread between.
His failure to talk on details of his early life seem to theinterviewer due to unwillingness rather than lack of memory.
When the interviewer first visited Uncle John he was busy cutting hay for a white family nearby, swinging the scythe with the vigor of a young man.
A friend of the interviewer who was present remarked, "That must have been horrible to say the least.
Continuing in this strain I gave my interviewer material for a very plausible article, which I remember was duly published, and which thus helped to divert attention from the right scent.
The last-mentioned status that I have ascribed to my interviewer is by no means an impossible one, considering the many dastardly attempts made to discredit and ruin M.
But I do object to the incapable, be he an interviewer wielding the pencil or the pen.
The interviewer shall describe the scene in his own words.
The composer himself had a good deal to say to an interviewer of the New York Herald on this question of reminiscences in his opera.
With regard to the billiard playing, the pianist once explained to an interviewer the place it takes in the economy of his life.
The interviewer left the court, and five minutes later was in Stirling's office.
To take one out of the twenty examples, some of which I have mentioned elsewhere, suppose an interviewer had said that I had the reputation of being a nut.
It would not seem odd that a French interviewer should translate them into French; and it is certain that the American interviewer sometimes translates them into American.
Another interviewer once asked me who was the greatest American writer.
Another innocent complication is that the interviewer does sometimes translate things into his native language.
Would you not rather handle a snake, however dangerous, than the specialinterviewer of a London evening paper?
A Czech newspaper not long ago informed the world that this monstrous personage had told an interviewer that not only had Serbian soldiers in Macedonia been murdering 200 children but that they had roasted and consumed them.
When I asked him what he had to say about the two afore-mentioned remarks he gave me an amusing account of how the interviewer had appreciated the various samples of wine which he (Radić) had just brought down from his vineyard.
The interviewer closed her notebook and took her departure, leaving Frances dozing in her chair.
On the whole, I regard the intervieweras an exceedingly important person.
If the interviewer is fair and honest he is useful, if the other way, he is still interesting.
It was just the sort of plan, she said, that Miss Stackpole would be sure to suggest, and she enquired if the correspondent of the Interviewer was to take the party to stay at her favourite boarding-house.
She had been studying it for two months at Venice, from which city she sent to the Interviewer a conscientious account of the gondolas, the Piazza, the Bridge of Sighs, the pigeons and the young boatman who chanted Tasso.
With no more outward light on the subject than he already possessed he suddenly acquired the conviction that it would be a sovereign injustice to the correspondent of the Interviewer to assign a dishonourable motive to any act of hers.
I decided only the night before I left New York--the Interviewer having come round to my figure.
The Interviewerwas perhaps disappointed, but Henrietta was at least seeing Europe.
Practically, Mrs. Varian's acquaintance with literature was confined to The New York Interviewer; as she very justly said, after you had read theInterviewer you had lost all faith in culture.
Her tendency, with this, was rather to keep the Interviewer out of the way of her daughters; she was determined to bring them up properly, and they read nothing at all.
The interviewer had approached an open door of an "L" kitchen attached to a "shot gun house".
But the interviewer managed to terminate the interview quickly.
Need the interviewer record the history of the interviewed?
If the interviewer became the interviewed, from the latter's point of view it wouldn't pay.
With a blush Miss Lonsdale handed our interviewer an exquisite bunch of flowers culled by the beautiful young actress from her garden, a 'thing of beauty' in the dreary desert of London streets," read out one of the girls.
Of course," the interviewer hemmed, nervously, "that will be twelve and sixpence for the cost of reproduction.
Always, therefore, the interviewer must be courteous, knowing that kindness begets kindness and that the other fellow, if approached rightly, will respond in the end to his own mood.
Above all things in his purpose to present a pleasing presence, the interviewer must possess unfailing courtesy.
Then, with his man started, the interviewer may well keep silent.
With the second and third classes, however, the interviewer must be careful, particularly with the second.
Every man is interested in himself and his work, and the interviewer often may start him talking by beginning on work.
Many an interviewer will listen a half-hour without taking a note, then spend the next half-hour on a horse-block or a curb writing down what the person interviewed has said.
Would you not recommend the abolishing of the interviewer entirely?
The newspaper intervieweris a benefit to the press, to the country, and to all public people who have a name and a reputation to make.
Just in the same way, the whole public offers a quiet ovation to the man of reputation when an interviewer presents his card.
And the interviewer should be met courteously, and the public man should realize that this sort of thing is the duty he pays on fame.
