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If the king really desired to continue the war, he had but to alter a single comma in the draught, and, out of that comma, the stadholder's party would be certain to manufacture for him as long a war as he could possibly wish.

Where did you drop from? Give me just a minute while I finish this letter. Let me see. Where was I?" The secretary read in a dull, secretarial voice: "'Thousblinsoldiersorphs wem'sdo'll we can." "Oh yes," said Charity. "'You have never failed to respond to such an appeal, comma; no, semicolon; no, period. 'So I shall put you down for a subscription of dash 'how much' question-mark.

In this edition, the greatest care has been taken to preserve the exact words of the author, as he first published them; where he altered or added to the text in subsequent editions, it is marked with an inverted comma, or inserted in the notes.

It is approximately six miles long, has an average width of one mile, and resembles a little in shape a huge comma, with the city of Key West for its head and a diminishing curve of low, swampy chaparral and mangrove-bushes for a tail. The shallow bay of pale-green water between the head and the tail on the concave side of the comma is known as "the bight."

The one wriggles herself into the shape of a trembling comma, and, foolishly chasing herself, rolls over on her back, to demonstrate her joy at my advent. The other says: "Come into the kitchen-garden, and see whether the apricot-flowers are out on the south wall."

Then the vicious voice began, in a loud mechanical manner, to speak with the greatest volubility, running the sentences together, and not thinking of a comma or a period till her breath was exhausted, in a manner that would have fairly distanced Susan Nipper herself, even if that rapid young lady had twenty seconds the start.

Had not Marquis Spinola, a man who could use his brains and his pen as well as his sword, expressly implored the politicians of Madrid not to change even a comma in the form of ratification which he sent to Spain? Verreyken, placed face to face with plain-spoken, straightforward, strong-minded men, felt the dreary absurdity of the position.

And Praps is no better. His 'Hemlock Mosses, for instance is beautifully written. Not a comma is out of place; and the tone ah! is lofty, so lofty. He is the best-paid critic in the United States. Though, Heaven forbid! he's not a critic at all. They do criticism better in England. "But the point is, they sound the popular note, and they sound it so beautifully and morally and contentedly.

"The good die young, And we whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." But take death, as Christ teaches us, not as a full stop, but as only a comma in the story of an endless life, and then the whole aspect of our existence is changed. That which is material, base, evil, drops down. That which is spiritual, noble, good, rises to lead us on.

I have sometimes adopted his restoration of a comma, without inserting the panegyrick in which he celebrated himself for his atchievement.