Excerpt from The Little Minister
The editor of Good Words, in which "The Little Minister" appeared, was dissatisfied with the size of the heroine"s mouth and implored me to make it larger. Otherwise the book would always disturb him. So with charming good-nature I enlarged Babbie"s mouth, and he was again the most genial man in Glasgow.
But no one could persuade me to add half an inch to the stature of the little minister. In real life small men have their affairs of the heart equally with their big brothers, they even bring them to a successful issue (wait at the church door and you will presently see a little bridegroom emerge with a tall bride); but in fiction these things are not so; you know when the short man is introduced that he is to be a mere foil to a six-footer, that he must love in vain, that at the most the lady will offer to be a sister to him.
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