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But it is also more than that; it stands on firmer ground, being based on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the reading of print and handwriting on second-hand impression. Thus fiction is nearer truth. But let that pass.
I can afford to abide the showing of the logic of events." "And I!" retorted Mabel, hastily, turning from her, without attempting to dissemble her chagrin, to answer a knock at the door. It was a servant, with two letters. The annoyance passed from her brow, like the sheerest mist, as she read the superscriptions one in her brother's handwriting, the other in Frederic's.
Appended to the manuscript I find a note, in another handwriting, signed "R. G.," dated at Malton Rectory, 1747. One Rawson Grindall, M. A., was curate of Malton at this date, and the initials are undoubtedly his.
A facsimile of the portrait is here given, with an inscription in Sir Moses' own handwriting. In his will, Sir Moses, referring to him and to the Synagogue at Leghorn, thus expresses himself
All pink lace and and Cupids, and the picture of a young man and a young woman in a garden." "Was that all?" "Oh, no, there was a verse, in the oddest handwriting. I wonder who sent it?" "Perhaps Ralph," I hazarded ecstatically. "Ralph couldn't write poetry," she replied disdainfully. "Besides, it was very good poetry." I suggested other possible authors and admirers. She rejected them all.
We proved our case clearly, step by step: the marriage, the accouchement, the handwriting of Grainger Bilston proved this to the letters addressed to his wife, were clearly established.
'Can I do anything, sir? came the faint, nervous question after a long pause. 'One moment, Ada, he called in a loud voice. He took out his pocket-book, sat down, and scribbled a little note. He hardly noticed how changed his handwriting was the clear round letters crabbed and irregular. 'Are you there, Ada? he called. 'I am slipping a note beneath the door; just draw back the mat; that's it.
I wished that I had beside me some authoritative interpreter who could read for me "this mystic handwriting on the wall." It has been suggested that the silent scene before me represented the passage of a soul to the world of the dead. The lean and starved-looking horse symbolised death; and its red and yellow spots indicated corruption.
Mechanically he took it up to return it, and, as he did so, he recognized Sydney's handwriting. Jean snatched it from him, turning pale to the lips as she cried, "Did you read it? What did you see? Tell me, tell me, on your honor!" "On my honor, I saw nothing but this single sentence, 'By the love I bear you, believe what I say. No more, as I am a gentleman.
In 1513 Thomas More, still Under-Sheriff of London, is said to have written his "History of the Life and Death of King Edward V., and of the Usurpation of Richard III." The book, which seems to contain the knowledge and opinions of More's patron, Morton, was not printed until 1557, when its writer had been twenty-two years dead. It was then printed from a MS. in More's handwriting.
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