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He does not seem to have tried deliberately to reveal himself, yet he has revealed himself in that short personal note-book almost as much as the great inspired egotists, Rousseau and St. Augustine.
"With you present?" said Noemi. "How can that be possible?" Carlino explained that he would not walk with them, but would follow, note-book and pencil in hand. They would be obliged to halt from time to time according to his pleasure, and must be prepared to obey any other orders he might see fit to issue. "Very well," said Noemi, "first let us go to the Quai du Rosaire to see the swans."
Besides, he and the boy had to live, and living is dear nowadays, even in a cottage in an out-of-the-way corner of Connecticut; and he needed fire and light in abundance for his work, besides something to eat and decent clothes to wear and somebody to cook the dinner; and when he took out his diary note-book and examined the figures on the page near the end, headed "Cash Account, November," he made out that he had three hundred and eighteen dollars and twelve cents to his credit, and nothing to come after that, and he knew that the men who had believed in him had invested, amongst them, ten thousand dollars in shares, and had paid him the money in cash in the course of the past three years, but would invest no more; and it was all gone.
After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject. My first note-book was opened in July, 1837.
"It must be near noon," said Willy, remembering that an observation had to be taken. Harry pulled out his watch there was but little time to lose. The quadrant was got ready. Harry felt somewhat weak, as he stood up with it at his eye, while Willy, with note-book in hand, marked down the degrees as he read them off.
Pretty friends!" and the squire buttoned up the pocket to which he had transferred his note-book, with a determined air. "But I'm his friend, too," said Randal, kindly; "and I preach to him properly, I can tell you." Then, as if delicately anxious to change the subject, he began to ask questions upon crops and the experiment of bone manure.
'Well, he answered at last, 'I accept your very gallant and generous proposal. 'I am overjoyed! said Logan. He had never been in such a big thing before. 'I shall order my two best horses to be saddled after breakfast, said Mr. Macrae. 'You will bait at Inchnadampf. 'Here is my address; this will always find me, said Logan, writing rapidly on a leaf of his note-book.
That night he hunted up her address in his note-book and found his way to the dismal lodging-house. Four cheap-looking young persons were loitering in the parlor, two were drumming on a piano that was out of tune, and the room smelled fusty.
"By the way, constable," said Sir Richard, "I am on my way to visit a poor boy whose leg was broken on the day my pony ran away. He was holding the pony at the time. He lives in Whitechapel somewhere. I have the address here in my note-book." "Excuse me, sir, one moment," said Number 666, going towards a crowd which had gathered round a fallen horse.
Sick of it as many, however, say they are, they would all live "a little and a little longer still," when the dread hour comes that calls them home. These remarks have been suggested by the following passage in my note-book: "17th August, , case of Eugene D , in the jail of . Extraordinary example of the amor vitæ."
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