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"What do you do?" "Oh, no end of odds and ends. Wash out things. Read. Sew. Practice. Write." "What do you write? Letters to suitors? Lucky chaps." "Nonsense!" she said, coloring. "A girl like you must have a string of them after her." "No! I write you see, I've always sort of wanted to write fiction. Magazine stories. I like to scribble in my spare time." "Story writing?
If copy fell short, he was obliged to scribble a book-review on the virtues of the Anglo-Saxons or the vices of the Popes; for he knew more about Edward the Confessor or Boniface VIII than he did about President Grant. For seven years he wrote nothing; the Review lived on his brother Charles's railway articles. The editor could help others, but could do nothing for himself.
Here follows a pen scribble in my journal of what happens in this household once a week I understand. Before dinner mine host and hostess give some signal and the servants line up on the verandah and their wages are paid. Such a lot of ground is covered and so very quickly.
"Dear Father, The Christmas box arrived this morning and its contents are greatly appreciated, I can assure you. How am I ever to thank you enough! "Certainly not by such a stilted scribble as that. Sounds as if I might be addressing the president of the Associated Charities. Oh, dear, it is such a piece of work to write to one's father!
I suppose she's over thirty. I think I know the species. June 12th, A. M. I have really nothing to do but to scribble. "Barkis is willing." Captain Blunt brought me word this morning that his daughter smiles propitious. I am to report this evening; but I shall send my slender baggage in an hour or two. P. M. Here I am, housed.
Well, dearest, this letter a very unhandsome return, I own, for yours must content you at present, for they will not let me write more; though, so far as I am concerned, I am never so weak, in frame I mean, but what I could scribble to you about him. Addio, carissima.
I am going to live with them, and I am going to have her ladyship's own boudoir to scribble in. It is a wild place enough with porridge and potatoes to eat, varied with what fish I may provide for myself and arbutus berries if it comes to starving. The noble lord has been away for some years.
"Nothing else for it, is there? Well, I'll scribble him a bit of a note." "But I shan't see him, Louis." "No?" In an instant Rachel thought to herself: "He doesn't want me to see him." Aloud she said: "I should have to dress myself all over again. Besides, I'm not fit to be seen." She was referring, without any apparent sort of shame, to the redness of her eyes.
His wishes had been made known to her; but he had failed altogether to understand the nature of the duty she had imposed upon herself. Thus she let that day pass by, although she knew that the writing of the letter would be an affair of much time to her. She could not take her sheet of paper, and scribble off warm words of love as he had done.
What do I care for all that you can do! But I know all. Do not think that I am blind. And so you would even have married her! You, the descendant of St. Louis, and she the Scarron widow, the poor drudge whom in charity I took into my household! Ah, how your courtiers will smile! how the little poets will scribble! how the wits will whisper!
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