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Brownleigh's handwriting. The next thing was to make her plan and compose her letter. She lay staring into the darkness and trying to think just what she could do. In the first place, she settled it that Margaret must be gotten to Walpi at least. It would not do to send her to Ganado, where the mission station was, for that was a comparatively short journey, and she could easily go in a day.
For there were not only taps to signify each new fire-district, one for the first, two for the second, three, four, five, six seven, eight, and nine, but there was also one lone toll at mid-day for the hungry mechanic, and nine at the evening hour when the tired workman called his children in from the street and turned to his couch, and the slave must show cause in a master's handwriting why he or she was not under that master's roof.
"That is immaterial," added Captain Battleton, as Corny left the cabin to procure the document. "Have you a copy of your report, Lieutenant Passford?" He pointed to Christy. "I have, captain; and it is in my own handwriting," replied the officer addressed. "Produce it, if you please."
"My dear," replied he, "if that does not show you the handwriting on the wall, nothing ever will." "A girl has to find a husband, doesn't she?" asked Carley, roused to defense of her sex. "And if she's anybody she has to find one in her set. Well, husbands are not plentiful. Marriage certainly is not the end of existence these days. We have to get along somehow.
Then remember that it has been proved over and over again by the facts of the handwriting of God himself to be mistaken and wrong in any number of directions. God is writing his own book in the heavens, in the earth, in the human heart; and we are reading the story there.
'I took the letter to one of those men who tell character by handwriting, answered Logotheti. 'I don't know whether you believe in that, but I do a little. I got rather a queer result, considering that I only showed half-a-dozen lines, which could not give any idea of the contents. 'What did the man say?
I was staggered. His violence had confirmed my suspicions, but his gentleness weakened them. "Besides," thought I, "the handwriting /is his/; and even if my life depended upon reading the letter of another, I do not think my honour would suffer me to do so against his consent." A thought struck me, "Will you swear," said I, "that this letter does not concern me?"
Divided, in little green velvet compartments, were all the things he had given her, even her watch, and stuck into the recess that contained the watch was a three-cornered note addressed 'Soames Forsyte, in Irene's handwriting: 'I think I have taken nothing that you or your people have given me. And that was all.
As regards the mode of copying: of course it is too long for any amanuensis to attempt: and your own handwriting, dear Robbie, in your last letter seems specially designed to remind me that the task is not to be yours. I think that the only thing to do is to be thoroughly modern and to have it typewritten. Of course the MS. should not pass out of your control, but could you not get Mrs.
"Recognize me by this!" said the cardinal, drawing a folded paper from his bosom and handing it to the princess. "That is Count Paulo's handwriting!" she joyfully exclaimed. "Ah, you recognize the handwriting," said the cardinal, "and you see that this letter is addressed to me. Count Paulo therefore considers me his friend!" "May I read this letter?" "I beg you to do so."
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