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The Leader made a faint gesture of philosophic doubt. "The mould is broken," said he. "We'll see," said Frank Ayres, confidently. Meanwhile, Paul returned to his room and wrote a letter, three words of which he had put on paper "My dear Princess" when the summons to meet the Chief Whip had come. The unblotted ink had dried hard. He took another sheet. "My dear Princess," he began.
His mind and hand went together, and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers. From whose custody did those 'papers' come? Where had they been all the seven years? Of what did they consist? If in truth unblotted, all the seventeen Quartos as well as the new plays must have been printed from fair manuscript copies.
Seeing the Unblotted Escutcheon turning black with what he supposed to be the record of his own misdeeds showing through the whitewash, the Orator fell dead of mortification.
Is it not possible that yet, in some ancient convent, insignificant to the eye of the traveller as modern Nazareth would be but for its ancient story, some one of the original gospel-manuscripts may lie, truthful and unblotted from the hand of the very evangelist?
That remained black, grim, unblotted, the unalterable death stain. Why, then, should they meet? Why seek even to know of each other? Close together, or far apart, there yawned a bottomless gulf between. Silence was better; silence, and the mercy of partial forgetfulness. Winston had toiled hard during those years, partly from a natural liking, partly to forget his heartaches.
The volumes of the encyclopedias never change places. Manuscripts unblotted, and free from interlineation, and labeled. The spittoon knows its place in the corner, as if treated by tobacco chewers with oft indignity. You could go into that study with your eyes shut, turn around, and without feeling for the chair throw yourself back with perfect confidence that the furniture would catch you.
Renouncing the maxim of worldly wisdom which bids men "get all you can and keep all you get," they resolved rather to give all they had to advance the common cause, to use every benefit conferred upon them in the service of the general welfare, to bestow upon the world more than they received from it, and to leave a fair and unblotted account of business done with life which should show a clear balance in their favor.
It was a sight to behold Tim Linkinwater slowly bring out a massive ledger and day-book, and, after turning them over and over, and affectionately dusting their backs and sides, open the leaves here and there, and cast his eyes, half mournfully, half proudly, upon the fair and unblotted entries. 'Four-and-forty year, next May! said Tim. 'Many new ledgers since then. Four-and-forty year!
They entered Belgium to save time. The time has gone. They have not gained time, but they have lost their good name. But Belgium was not the only little nation that has been attacked in this war, and I make no excuse for referring to the case of the other little nation the case of Servia. The history of Servia is not unblotted. What history in the category of nations is unblotted?
Kennedy's suspicion in one way, and my own in an opposite way, which I know now was wrong. And then Cadwalader Brown in the studio taunted me cynically and and it cut me, for he seemed right. I hope that Mr. Travis will forgive me for thinking that Mr. Bennett's treachery was his" A terrific cheer broke out among the clerks in the outer office. A boy rushed in with a still unblotted report.
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