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Ten pen-strokes with the one system to convey those three words above, and thirty-three by the other!
Basil gladly accepted this invitation, and was conducted to a long, well-lit room, where, at great desks, sat some five or six of the brothers, each bent over a parchment which would some day form portion of a volume, writing with slow care, with the zeal of devotees and with the joy of artists. Not a whisper broke upon the silence in which the pen-strokes alone were audible.
Not a sound can be heard but my pen-strokes, and the ever welcome voice of the cricket, which seems expressly created to announce silence and peace. . . . It is very singular how much more we are in the centre of society in Lenox than we were in Salem, and all literary persons seem settling around us.
Moreover, I am prepared to show that the pulse beats exhibited in the case of certain pen-strokes in one of these documents are exhibited in similar strokes in the other. Furthermore, I have ascertained from his family physician, whose affidavit I have here, that Mr. Bisbee did not suffer from this or any other form of heart disease. Mr.
His random glance was arrested by a thin, wavering hand he knew well, scrawled on an envelope that bore the picture and name of a New York hotel. Had he been a student of chirography, he might have read the secret of the enigma that tormented him in those pale, uncertain pen-strokes, so unlike the firm, compact characters by which Miss Wycliffe visualised her will.
After which, if I say, that my aim is not to copy, but to interpret and transfigure, I suppose I shall again seem to be self-contradictory. But that, again, must be put down to my fumbling pen-strokes. Perhaps I ought to have gone to Palestine in search of the ideal model, but then my father's failing health kept me within a brief railway run of the Parsonage.
With this final sentence, Bartle Massey gave a sharper rap than ever with his knobbed stick, and the discomfited lads got up to go with a sulky look. The other pupils had happily only their writing-books to show, in various stages of progress from pot-hooks to round text; and mere pen-strokes, however perverse, were less exasperating to Bartle than false arithmetic.
To write that word with the phonographic alphabet, the pen has to make only FIVE strokes. To write the words "phonographic alphabet," the pen has to make fifty-three strokes. To write "fonografic alfabet," the pen has to make fifty strokes. To the penman, the saving in labor is insignificant. Without the vowels, only THIRTEEN strokes. We make five pen-strokes in writing an m. Total, five.
Without counting them, the twenty-six letters of our alphabet consumed about eighty pen-strokes for their construction about three pen-strokes per letter. It requires but ONE stroke for each letter. My writing-gait is well, I don't know what it is, but I will time myself and see. Result: it is twenty-four words per minute.
His mere pen-strokes have, for the expert, a beauty and an interest quite apart from the thing they are made to depict, whether he uses them as mere outlines to express the shape of things animate or inanimate, even such shapeless, irregular things as the stones on a sea-beach or in combination to suggest the tone and colour of a dress-coat, or a drunkard's nose, of a cab or omnibus of a distant mountain with miles of atmosphere between it and the figures in the foreground.
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