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"Bourse, six hundred thousand livres; various property, two millions. Ah! I forgot the furniture of the different chateaux " "Must I put of the crown?" asked Bernouin. "No, no; it is of no use doing that that is understood. Have you written that, Bernouin?" "Yes, monseigneur." "And the ciphers?" "Stand straight under one another." "Cast them up, Bernouin."
His idea was that D'Artagnan wished to become a land-owner, only he could not help regretting, more than once, the absence of the lively humor and amusing sallies of the cheerful companion of former days. In fact, D'Artagnan was so absorbed, that, with his knife, he took advantage of the grease left at the bottom of his plate, to trace ciphers and make additions of surprising rotundity.
But the bear 'ciphers; he knows how many pounds his hams weigh, and he 'calculates' if he carried them up in the air, they might be top heavy for him. "If we had this Province we'd go to work and 'cipher' right off. Halifax is nothing without a river or back country; add nothing to nothing, and I guess you have nothing still add a railroad to the Bay of Fundy, and how much do you git?
From where he lay, Israel could not see that side of the arm presented to the mirror, but he saw its reflection, and started at perceiving there, framed in the carved and gilded wood, certain large intertwisted ciphers covering the whole inside of the arm, so far as exposed, with mysterious tattooings.
Among the many ignorant people who know nothing of ciphers, I am one and I told him so. 'That's how I keep my secret, he said; 'write from my dictation, and you shall know what it means. Lift me up first. As I did it, he rolled his head to and fro, evidently in pain. But he managed to point to pen, ink, and paper, on a table hard by, on which his doctor had been writing.
It is certain that Gilles had long studied them, but from that to understanding them is a far cry. "For they were written in an impossible jargon of allegories, twisted and obscure metaphors, incoherent symbols, ambiguous parables, enigmas, and ciphers. And here is an example."
Since our ambitious cravings were satisfied in our everyday work, and since now ordinarily available methods of communication sufficed our needs, we no longer felt impelled to signal across the house-tops with semaphores nor to devise ciphers that would defy solution. But we still kept up our intimate friendship and our intense interest in our beloved subject.
Pressed into their service there was also the Marquise de Villars, a frantic gambler, a creature bereft of all principle and all modesty, to whom a sum of twenty thousand crowns in cash was paid over beforehand, with the promise of a million directly success was ensured. She undertook to manage Rohan and tell him what to do. Certain ciphers had to be used, and to these the Marquise had the key.
He does not escape the modern way of symbolic, infinitesimal melody, so small that it must, of course, reappear. It is a little like the wonderful arguments from ciphers hidden in poetry. It cannot he denied that the smallness of phrase does suggest a smallness of idea. The plan of magic motive will not hold ad infinitesimum.
He had read Tuscan poetry to her in old Agostino's rooms; he had spoken of secret preparations for the revolt; he had declaimed upon Italy, the poetry was good though the declamation may have been bad, but she had always been singularly irresponsive, with a practical turn for ciphers. A quick reckoning, a sharp display of figures in Italy's cause, kindled her cheeks and took her breath.
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