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The Faith, he begins to see, can take care of itself: for him, it is important to await his marching-orders with a clean breast. Eh, Dick?" The Senior Tutor took his pipe from his mouth and nodded slowly. "But what is your book?" he asked. "My Parish Register. Its entries cover the years from 1660 to 1827.
Until the ship was paid off and thus put out of commission or, in the case of a very long commission, until 'new books' were ordered to be opened so as to escape the inconveniences due to the repetition of large numbers of entries the name of every man that had belonged to her remained on the list, his disposal if no longer in the ship being noted in the proper column.
The student should accustom himself to orderly entries at the time of observation. These are based upon experience; but other arrangements, if clear and orderly, may prove equally serviceable. The student is advised to follow the sample pages until he is in a position to plan out a system of his own.
Punctuation, to be sure, consists largely of dashes or is non-existent, and there are some corrections. But there are not as many changes as there are in the remainder of this MS or in F of F B. It was in Rome that Mary's oldest child, William, died on June 7, 1819. Cf. two entries in Mary Shelley's journal.
During the first year of his acquaintance with these lovely girls, the tell-tale book of his tailor, Mr. William Filby, displays entries of four or five full suits, besides separate articles of dress.
Howat had not seen it for twenty years, but he recalled immediately that it was a forge book kept in Gilbert Penny's day; then Myrtle Forge had been new, that other Howat alive. He opened it carefully, powdered his knees with leather dust, and studied the faded entries; what flourishing, pale violet initials, what rubicund lines and endings!
Since our departure from Port Gräuben, Professor Liedenbrock had entrusted the log to my care; I was to register every observation, make entries of interesting phenomena, the direction of the wind, the rate of sailing, the way we made in a word, every particular of our singular voyage.
The practice was kept up until the mosquitoes obliged them to discontinue it. That it did not prove entirely satisfactory, we judge from several entries in the diary like the following: "I still sit in silence with dear mother, but feel very sensibly that she takes no interest at all in it; still, I do not like to relinquish the habit, believing it may yet be blessed.
Eva was reading certain entries in the books, while Locke was making notes to be used at the coming directors' meeting. Eva closed the ledger from which she had been reading and announced, "I intend, at the meeting, to insist that the patents held in the Graveyard of Genius be released to the world." "It is the only honorable thing to do," agreed Locke.
"You are old enough to get married now," said Honora, still considerate. "But I am not rich enough," said Peter; "and besides, I want you." One of the first entries in the morocco diary which had a lock and key to it was a description of Honora's future husband. We cannot violate the lock, nor steal the key from under her pillow.
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