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Foreseeing that he would demand inspection of this record, I had been attentive to transcribe such particulars of information as he would most likely be pleased with, but too often the pen had discharged the task without much correspondence with the head.
It had the look of some of the memoranda I had myself drawn up during the most perplexing moments of this strange case. I transcribe it just as it read: "We have here two separate accounts of how death comes to those who breathe their last on the ancestral hearthstone of the Moore house library. "Certain facts are emphasized in both: "Each victim was alone when he fell.
"Dr.Fiddes came, and communicated to me his intention of writing the life of Cardinal Wolsey at large; and desired me to transcribe for him all such materials in this library as I should find for his purpose. I showed him divers things here, and gave him notice of many others in the Cottonian library, etc., but as to transcribing for him, begged his excuse, etc." On the 22nd December 1721, "Mr.
I venture to transcribe the eloquent words in which the Cardinal has placed on record the value he had for his friendship, in the dedication to his 'University Sketches:
From my experience with these sheep I made some naïve deductions and wrote them in my notebook. From it, lying open before me now, I transcribe these boyish but none the less accurate observations: "Mountain sheep have all-seeing eyes therefore, one keeps in the open at all times and never attempts stalking them under cover.
Against the unanimous wish of a free people, this inheritance could only be acquired by arms; and I am pleased to transcribe the style and sense of the historian Falcandus, who writes at the moment, and on the spot, with the feelings of a patriot, and the prophetic eye of a statesman.
On this subject, and on the passivity to which he was now compelled, he had written as explicitly as he could to his friend Brownson, and on June 7 he received a response which had such an immediate result upon his future that we transcribe it entire: "Mt. Bellingham, June 6, 1844. My dear Isaac: I thank you for your letter, and the frankness with which you speak of your present interior state.
"We can transcribe an agreement and place it in the Public Repository." "A good idea and we'd better waste no time. Alexander might still be looking for me and if he is, it's merely a question of time before he catches up." "Ten years have passed. It's doubtful. But we could keep you here at the Center." Kennon shook his head. "Too dangerous. And besides it would compromise you.
With this animating sentiment the neophyte made a fearful beginning, and his master assisted him to transcribe it for years to come through half text and small text, till he could accomplish it with such delicate up-strokes and massive down-strokes, such fine curves and calculated distances, that the writing could hardly be distinguished from the original, and might be exhibited to the Lord Provost and bailies at the annual examination.
I will not transcribe any of them I have them to show if needful but not at my command at the present moment; for I am writing neither where I commenced my story on the outskirts of an ancient city, nor at the Moat, but in a dreary old square in London; and those letters lie locked again in the old bureau, and have lain unvisited through thousands of desolate days and slow creeping nights, in that room which I cannot help feeling sometimes as if the ghost of that high-spirited, restless-hearted grandmother of mine must now and then revisit, sitting in the same old chair, and wondering to find how far it was all receded from her wondering, also, to think what a work she made, through her long and weary life, about things that look to her now such trifles.
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