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My eyes being bad I spent the evening with her in her chamber talking and inventing a cypher to put on a piece of plate, which I must give, better than ordinary, to the Parson's child, and so to bed, and through my wife's illness had a bad night of it, and she a worse, poor wretch! 22nd.
Then again, who could doubt, even if the fact were not historically attested, that the Arabs were the arithmeticians, the astronomers, the chemists, the merchants of the Middle Ages, when he had once noted that from them we have gotten these words and so many others like them- 'alchemy, 'alcohol, 'alembic, 'algebra, 'alkali, 'almanack, 'azimuth, 'cypher, 'elixir, 'magazine, 'nadir, 'tariff, 'zenith, 'zero ? for if one or two of these were originally Greek, they reached us through the Arabic, and with tokens of their transit cleaving to them.
You are a mere cypher a make-weight in the social scale an article of no value to any one except the owner." "Not even the latter, mademoiselle," I replied, bitterly. "It is long since I have ceased to value my own life." She smiled again, but her eyes this time were full of tears. "Nay," said she, softly, "am I not the owner?" Great joys at first affect us like great griefs.
He was altogether delighted at the way in which things had turned out, though he did not know how Fortune had aided him still more at Waterloo Station. On the following morning Leroy received a cypher note from Lady Merivale, saying that she had arrived home safely, and unnoticed; and, with a sigh of relief, he turned his attention to his own affairs.
'But has she done anything nasty anything to bother you? 'Well, of course, I'm just a cypher when she's there. I'm afraid I oughtn't to mind but I do! And Pamela, with her hands round her knees, stared into the fire in bitterness of spirit.
I can no longer remain here but as a cypher, or to be a prisoner to the Prince of Orange, and you know there is but a small distance between the prisons and the graves of kings. Therefore I go for France immediately; when there you shall have my instructions you, Lord Balcarres, shall have a commission to manage my civil affairs, and you, Lord Dundee, to command my troops in Scotland."
Finally, having proved that it was impossible for any of them to compose a cypher he could not read in less time than its author had spent in inventing it, he took advantage of his only safeguard, and positively declined to have anything more to do with them. But he found a much more interesting way of exercising his power of analysis.
It turned out that not one of them thought him a cypher; and he was absurdly gratified, and said he would find space for them all in the drawing-room if they fitted in. 'We'll fit in, sir, they assured him. 'Then follow the leader, he cried gaily. 'Mind you, I am not sure that we have a drawing-room, but we pretend we have, and it's all the same. Hoop la!
He complained bitterly of the way in which he was reduced to a cypher 'degraded from a general to the "Lord-Lieutenant's head constable." Broadfoot went from the General to the Envoy, who 'was peevish, and denounced the General as fidgety.
For looking at the motto as it stood in cypher, the first thing I perceived was that, in order to read the secret, the heart-shaped figure must be left out of consideration, if there was any consistency in the system of cyphers at all, for it belonged to a class of symbols quite distinct from that of all the others, not being, like them, a picture-letter.
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