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As the purpose in publishing these passages from the private note-books is to give to those who ask for a memoir of Mr. Hawthorne every possible incident recorded by himself which shows his character and nature, the editor thinks it proper to disclose the fact that Mr.
The tourists were driven to the cathedral, the palaces of the governor and the archbishop, and to several of the public squares; but they found little occasion to describe them in their note-books, though they were all worth looking at. They were taken through some of the streets occupied by the poorer classes and to the great cigar factories.
What have you got those note-books out for? Not been taking down anything about me, have you?" "Show us out of the Park and you'll hear no more about it," Hamar said. "And we'll give you half a sovereign into the bargain," Kelson chimed in. "Follow me then," the policeman said. "I'll take you to one of the side entrances." "Matt!"
He had jerked the bell while she was collecting her note-books and the car was grinding down to a stop. "You pay your fare," he repeated, "or you get off the car right here." "Right here" was in the middle of what looked like a lake, and the rain was pouring down with a roar.
Presley took from his room only a few manuscripts and note-books, and a small valise full of his personal effects; at the doorway he paused and, holding the knob of the door in his hand, looked back into the room a very long time. He descended to the lower floor and entered the dining-room. Mrs. Derrick had disappeared.
The book which the young Renaissance held in its hands in England, with reverence and eagerness as strong and tender, contained the Epistles of St. Paul. It was on the Epistles that Colet lectured in 1496-97, when doctors and abbots flocked to hear him, with their note-books in their hands.
Maximum and minimum thermometers were taken along to keep a record of the daily temperature, and I also took with me a box of drawing and painting materials, as well as all kinds of instruments for map-making, such as protractors, parallel rules, tape rules, section paper, note-books, etc. I had water-tight half-chronometer watches keeping Greenwich mean time, and three other watches.
And yet this is what we are in the majority of cases doing for, or rather against, our intelligent and energetic American girls. Does it ever occur to us to ask what becomes of this energy, deprived thus of its natural outlet? We have only to turn to the records of our insane asylums or to the note-books of the physician and we are partially answered. This is more true than is generally supposed.
"Whatever you do, my dear, you mustn't excite yourself," said Julia; "for you know, if you look at all ill, the doctor will be sent for." "That is very true," returned the old man humbly, "I will compose myself with a little study." He thumbed his gallery of note-books. "Why, of course it would," cried Julia. "Read me one of your nice stories, there's a dear!"
Hawthorne used his material in the direct way that was his custom, and transferred bodily to his novel, to make its background and atmosphere, what he had preserved in his note-books or memory from the period of his residence with the reformers.
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