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` This may do , Ernest , ' he said with a sigh of relief . ` I dare say it will . I know Lancaster wants leader writers , and I think this is quite good enough to serve his turn . I 've spoken to him about you : come round with me now -- he 'll be at the office by four o'clock -- and we 'll see what we can do for you . It 's absolutely useless sending anything to the editor of a daily paper without an introduction . You might write with the pen of the angel Gabriel , or turn out leaders which were a judicious mean between Gladstone , Burke , and Herbert Spencer , and it would profit you nothing , for the simple reason that he has n't got the time to read them . He would toss Junius and Montesquieu into the waste paper basket , and accept copy on the shocking murder in the Borough Road from one of his regular contributors instead .