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Apparently not a single step of that kind was undertaken, nor probably was there a gas manager who would have agreed with Edison in the opinion written down by him at the time in little note-book No. 184, that gas properties were having conferred on them an enhanced earning capacity.
That I was not born in America was something like a physical defect that asserted itself in many disagreeable ways a physical defect which, alas! no surgeon in the world was capable of removing Other things that I would enter in my note-book were names of dishes on the bills of fare of the better restaurants, with explanations of my own.
This time he could praise unreservedly, and he was impatient to transfer to the pages of his note-book his seething impressions of the solemn beauty and simplicity of the last rites in the painful tragedy.
Many took a glint at him as he passed, but missed the frown, they were wondering so much why the fur of his heavy top-coat was on the inside, where it made little show, save at blasty corners. Miss Ailie was in her parlor, trying to give her mind to a blue and white note-book, but when she saw who was coming up the garden she dropped the little volume and tottered to her bedroom.
A little while ago, and we were still for liberty; 'crowd a few more thousands on the bench of Government, we seemed to cry; 'keep her head direct on liberty, and we cannot help but come to port. This is over; laisser faire declines in favour; our legislation grows authoritative, grows philanthropical, bristles with new duties and new penalties, and casts a spawn of inspectors, who now begin, note-book in hand, to darken the face of England.
"I have seen it," he said, "down there by the water, batting the river with its hands." I have copied this account of Paddy Flynn, with a few verbal alterations, from a note-book which I almost filled with his tales and sayings, shortly after seeing him. I look now at the note-book regretfully, for the blank pages at the end will never be filled up.
"Your name is Malcolm Knox?" asked the constable, glancing at a note-book which he held in his hand. "It is," I replied. "You are required to come at once to Bow Street to identify a woman who was found murdered in a taxi-cab in the Strand about eleven o'clock to-night." I suppressed an exclamation of horror; I felt myself turning pale. "But what has it to do "
This captivating work contains also a note-book which Haydn kept in London; it is filled with amusing blunders in English and vivid pictures of London life of the time, pictures as delectable in their way as the immortal garrulity of Pepys. I cannot do better than let these letters speak for themselves through such quotations as I have room to make. There are twenty-two of them in all, in Mr.
He stretched himself wearily upon the bed, but presently rose, went to the window, and looked for a long time at the darkened house where Mary Vertrees lived. Then he opened his trunk, took therefrom a small note-book half filled with fragmentary scribblings, and began to write: Laughter after a funeral. In this reaction people will laugh at anything and at nothing.
The Old World can beat us on rats and mice, but we are far ahead on squirrels, having five or six species to Europe's one. My note-book of the past season is enriched with the unusual incident of an English skylark in full song above an Esopus meadow.
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