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'Yes, said Peter, 'it is rather annoying. 'Old servants are proverbial for their long memories, the clerkly visitor went on. 'Are there any such remaining in his old home who would know anything about the man? Even a birth-mark although it is a thing most often connected with cheap romances nowadays might help to establish a case. 'Or disestablish it, said Peter.
The men had found food and rest in the Army, and now they were going to fight "niggers" people who ran away if you shook a stick at them. Wherefore they cheered lustily when the rumor ran, and the shrewd, clerkly non-commissioned officers speculated on the chances of batta and of saving their pay. At Headquarters, men said: "The Fore and Fit have never been under fire within the last generation.
'Are you there? he called up to the deck from the impenetrable darkness. As he spoke Purvis appeared at the top of the little gangway, dressed in his clerkly suit and stiff hat. 'You are just in time, he said in his thin, high voice, without a trace of excitement in it. 'When the light dawns they will find their boats, and even now we may have to run for it.
In small-town boy-gang talks behind barns, in clerkly confidences as a young man, in the chatter of smoking-cars and provincial hotel offices, he had been trained to know only two kinds of women, both very complaisant to smart live-wires: The bouncing lassies who laughed and kissed and would share with a man his pleasures, such as poker and cocktails, and rapid motoring to no place in particular; and the meek, attentive, "refined" kind, the wives and mothers who cared for a man and admired him and believed whatever he told them about his business.
"Would monsieur first deign to answer a few inquiries? Was the coat his own, or a friend's?" "A friend's," said Maitland, and then, beginning to hesitate, admitted that the garment only belonged to "a man he knew something about." "What is his name?" asked the clerkly man, who was taking notes. His name, indeed! If Maitland only knew that!
Presently there entered a tall young man with a long, thin face, curtained on either side with enormous masses of black hair, like a slip of the young moon glimmering through a pine-wood. At the same moment there entered, as if by design, his very antithesis: a short, firmly built, clerkly fellow, with a head like a billiard-ball in need of a shave, a big brown moustache, and enormous spectacles.
Observing that M. de Rosny smiled but answered nothing, I explained myself farther. 'I am surprised, I said, 'because I have always heard it maintained that clerkly men, becoming lost in the mazes of theology, seldom find any sure footing; that not one in a hundred returns to his old faith, or finds grace to accept a new one.
In a small glazed cabinet near the north door of Holy Trinity Church in the Warwickshire village of Stratford-upon-Avon, the long narrow volume of the parish register lies open at the page on which is inscribed in clear, clerkly hand the record of the christening of William Shakespeare, April 26, 1564.
While her aunt Bulstrode, who had a sisterly faithfulness towards her brother's family, had two sincere wishes for Rosamond that she might show a more serious turn of mind, and that she might meet with a husband whose wealth corresponded to her habits. "The clerkly person smiled and said Promise was a pretty maid, But being poor she died unwed." The Rev.
The native side of the movement is the work of a limited class, a microscopic minority, as Lord Dufferin described it, when compared with the people proper, but still a very interesting class, seeing that it is of our own creation. It is composed almost entirely of those of the literary or clerkly castes who have received an English education." "Surely that s a very important class.
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