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"Of the greatest service," said Mr. Giles. "A tremendous sacrifice, you know, enormous liabilities, unreserved sale, regardless of cost; and all that sort of thing." "Lord bless you!" said Mr. Burrows. "Do you think he doesn't understand how to do all that better than you can tell him? You'll draw out the headings of the posters; won't you, Mr. Robinson?"
"Old, but good." Then he glanced at the other headings, and ran his eye down the long strips on which Bartley had written; nibbled at the text here and there a little; returned to the first paragraph, and read that through; looked back at something else, and then read the close. "I guess you can leave it," he said, laying the manuscript on the table.
Most of the information, however, will now be sufficiently intelligible, if given in the form of mere extracts, without more of explanation than may be supplied by Italic headings:
In front of the class was a blackboard, on which were written the following words: "fruit, flowers, I. Roots tough, strong, stretch, extend. II. Trunk thick, branches, bark. III. Branches strong, tough, leaves. IV. Leaves green, shapes, sizes, beautiful, clothe, autumn, brown." I am told that sometimes as many as twelve headings are given, each with its own list of suggestive words.
They bear in their hands placards with black-typed announcements of the big news story of the day; and even these headings seem designed to soothe rather than to excite saying, for example, such things as Special From Liner, in referring to a disaster at sea, and Meeting in Ulster, when meaning that the northern part of Ireland has gone on record as favoring civil war before home rule.
One rule deals with main headings, the headings marked with the Roman numerals; the other deals with subordinate headings. Rule IX. Phrase each principal statement in the discussion so that it will read as a reason for the truth or the falsity of the proposition.
Westermarck's monumental treatise, The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, which brings together an immense quantity of facts, under a clear and comprehensive scheme of headings. He will discover, by the way, that, whereas customs differ immensely, the emotions, one may even say the sentiments, that form the raw material of morality are much the same everywhere.
This disturbed Ann Penhallow very little, but when they first came to Grey Pine the headings of her notepaper were matters of considerable curiosity to the straggling village of Westways, where she soon became liked, respected, and moderately feared.
Arrived in town, he ran over the headings of his letters, in no degree anxious for a communication from Wales. There was none. Why none? She might as well have scrawled her announcement of an event pleasing to her, and, by the calculation, important to him, if not particularly interesting. The mother's wifeish lines would, perhaps, have been tested in a furnace.
Sir Andrew glanced at both headings, then said: "Nay, I have not forgotten Arabic, who, while my lady lived, spoke little else with her, and who taught it to our daughter. But the light is bad, and, Godwin, you are scholarly; read me the French. We can compare them afterwards."
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