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Some odd instinct or intuition told her that history had repeated itself, and it came hardly as a surprise to find a half-sheet of notepaper tucked into her nightdress close to her heart. With fingers that trembled slightly, Myra unfolded the note and read: "Give me your heart and love, my wife, and I will devote my life to you. If you have no love, show no mercy."
When the letter was written in queer, crabbed characters, on one side of a half-sheet of paper, then folded so that she could write the address on the other side, because she had no envelope she wondered how she should get it delivered. There was a coolness between her and Harriet.
It was only a half-sheet of paper, about the size of an eight by twelve inch pane of glass, "in two pages folio, with two columns on each page." Consequently, it could not have contained more printed matter than is now compressed into half a page of one of the Boston dailies. Yet it was considered a very important undertaking for the times.
No sooner said than done; and in a few moments the half-sheet of large manuscript paper which the minister had placed before him was filled from top to bottom with a list of the designations of various religious funds. "Thank you, sir," said "Cobbler" Horn, glancing at the paper. "Will you, now, kindly set down in order how much you think I ought to give in each case."
His heart beat loud and fast as he tore open this envelope It contained only a half-sheet of paper, with these words written upon it in the cramped half-illegible hand which figured on the outside: "The person advertising for Marian Nowell is requested to call at No. 5, Queen Anne's Court, Wardour Street, any evening after seven." This was all.
I didn't reckon it was of any consequence at first, but from the questions you have been asking it may be useful to you." Mr. Sabin took the half-sheet of note-paper in silence. It was the ordinary stationery of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and the following words were written upon it in a faint delicate handwriting, but in yellow pencil: "Sept. 10th.
Before you write that brilliant notice of some alliterative Angelina's book of verses, I wish you would try this experiment. Take half a sheet of paper and copy upon it any of Angelina's stanzas, the ones you were going to make fun of, if you will. Now go to your window, if it is a still day, open it, and let the half-sheet of paper drop on the outside.
That is distinctly curious, because but do I understand that the type of the delusion varies? For example, Mr. Sargent believes that he can buy the Great Buchonian." "Did he write you that?" "He made the offer to the Company on a half-sheet of note-paper. Now, has he by chance gone to the other extreme, and believed that he is in danger of becoming a pauper?
Why, it worked me up so I jest sat right down an' made up a poem on it. I couldn't help it. An' it came easy, too 'most like the spontaneous combustion kind that I used to write, only I made it free verse. You know that's all the rage now. Like this," she finished, producing from somewhere about her person a half-sheet of note-paper. "Alone an' dark The studio Waited: Waited for the sun of day.
Looking at this half-sheet of note-paper, I see that the printer's name on the stamp in the corner is 'Graves, York. Now, I have just found that there is no paper at all like this in Williams' desk; all the note-paper it contains is marked 'Blakes, Ayrton. "I might bring many witnesses to prove how very unlike Williams' general character a trick of this kind would be.
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