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"You can hardly fancy it possible, I dare say, that I cannot find a quarter of an hour to scribble a note in; but so it is; and when a note is written, it has to be carried a mile to the post, and that consumes nearly an hour, which is a large portion of the day. Mr. and Mrs. have been gone a week. I heard from them this morning.
I have been employed two days in enlarging the notes I had made in our last prison, and in making them more legible, for I ventured no farther than just to scribble with a pencil in a kind of short-hand of my own invention, and not even that without a variety of precautions.
His time was limited. So, taking out a fountain pen, he had begun to scribble on the blank. Filling in Link's name and address, he wrote, in the "breed and sex" spaces, the words, "Scotch collie, sable-and-white, male." "Name?" he queried, breaking in on Ferris's rambling eulogy. "Huh?" asked the surprised Link, adding: "Oh, his name, hey?
The third day it rained incessantly. "Have you no books, Mrs. Goodyer?" asked poor John Burley. "Oh, yes, some that the dear lady left behind her; and perhaps you would like to look at some papers in her own writing?" "No, not the papers, all women scribble, and all scribble the same things. Get me the books." The books were brought up, poetry and essays John knew them by heart.
Our belief in immortality must rest on the gossip which departed spirits utter in dark rooms through the mouths of hypnotized business mediums, and our deepest personality comes to light when we scribble disconnected phrases in automatic writing. Is life then really still worth living? I have every sympathy with the complaint.
They were sort of blurred to him, but I described them and he told me who they were. "That's a girl o' mine," he said, with reference to one a jolly, good-looking bush girl. "I got a letter from her yesterday. I managed to scribble something, but I'll get you, if you don't mind, to write something more I want to put in on another piece of paper, and address an envelope for me."
She read on till dinner-time, only pausing to scribble rapid notes of the dates and names and facts which would not stand steadily in her whirling brain; and then she went down to the parlour, no longer pale, but with two hectic spots on her cheeks, and her eyes unnaturally bright. "Ah," ejaculated Miss Skipwith, delightedly. "You look better already.
He took a pencil, drew a writing-pad toward him and began to scribble a few characters. But he next stammered: "Why, no, it's not worth while. The Prefect will be reading my letter.... What on earth's the matter with me. I don't like this at all!" Suddenly he rose to his feet and called out: "Monsieur le Secrétaire, we've got ... we've got to ... It's for to-night. Nothing can prevent "
Along one side of the room, at a convenient height for a six-or eight-foot child, there was a blackboard, on which the youngsters might flourish in white and coloured chalk, and near by a sort of drawing block, from which sheet after sheet might be torn, and on which they could draw in charcoal, and a little desk there was, furnished with great carpenter's pencils of varying hardness and a copious supply of paper, on which the boys might first scribble and then draw more neatly.
He had dealt before with men of McGraw's character. He tore off Ashton's order, thrust it into the other's pudgy hand, and paused to scribble an order to hold the train on the shore span. On occasion McGraw could be nimble both in mind and body. The moment he had read Ashton's order, he wheeled about to rush back the way he had come, and let out a bull-like bellow: "Hi, youse! clear f'r trav'ller!
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