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He had two pairs of wax candles, a little cold supper on a side-table, his desk open, paper enough upon it to contain the entire Henriade, and a proportionate store of pens and ink.
And such few native legends as there were, he left to other pens. In all of his best poems, there is some central human interest, something that tells for courage, honour, manly resignation. When a story does not come readily to his hand in the new world, he seeks one in the old.
Bold is the man who undertakes to write his letters in his bedroom with country-house pens. But, to our friends.
We are not among the least grateful to those foreign philanthropists who take so deep an interest in our welfare as seldom to let any republican foible pass, without applying to it, as it merits, the caustic application of their purifying pens. Numberless are the moral missionaries that the mother country, for instance, has sent among us, on these pious and benevolent errands.
It was a famous place for pirates and buried treasures and slave pens. It was a sort of clearing house for slaves where they were fattened. I do not believe people take much interest in or know anything about it, but I am going to try and make an interesting story of it for Collier. It was queer to be so completely cut off from the world. There was a wireless but they would not let me use it.
One electric lamp, which she had just turned on, threw a strong light on the writing-table, on pens, stationery, an address book, a telephone book, a big blue-and-gold inkstand, some photographs which stood on a ledge protected by a tiny gilded rail. The rest of the room was in shadow. A low fire burned in the grate. Lady Sellingworth did not take up a book or occupy herself in any way.
The strength of her first grief had passed, and she was viewing her situation with a whimsical enjoyment of its humorous points. "I don't know," she went on, "it seems to me that it's only in stories themselves that destitute young Southern girls get on and make fame and fortune with their pens. I'm sure I couldn't." "Of course you couldn't. Whut else do you 'spect?
She then quickly continued, "It is, search for chrysanthemums; what's your idea about it?" Pao-ch'ai thought that too would do very well. "Let's choose ten of them first," she next proposed; "and afterwards note them down!" While talking, they rubbed the ink and moistened the pens. These preparations over, Hsiang-yuen began to write, while Pao-ch'ai enumerated the themes.
With a hard pencil no man can write anything but a graceless style a kind of east wind air it gives and smile you cannot. So that it is often used for serious articles in the half-crown reviews. There follows the host of steel pens.
And all alongst since, whosoever has offered grievances, or any way witnessed against the bypast and present defections, have been and are prosecuted with church censure, or persecuted with bitter and malicious invectives and reproaches, falling from the tongues and pens of those that are obliged by Covenant to have assisted, defended and encouraged them.
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