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Updated: May 14, 2025
"My Teachers," says he, "were hide-bound Pedants, without knowledge of man's nature, or of boy's; or of aught save their lexicons and quarterly account-books. How shall he give kindling, in whose own inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder?
He wore a brown cap on his head, anila, long serge overcoat, the colour of which it was impossible to determine; and a pair of slippers, which had once been yellow, but were now stained with many a varied tinge. The chamber in which he sat was fitted up with a desk, and a table covered with packages of papers and account-books, two high stools, and three or four rickety chairs.
In old churchwardens' account-books we find such entries as the following "To the sextin for watching the sepulture two nyghts viiid." "Paide to Roger Brock for watching of the sepulchre 8d." And as the nights were cold we find an additional item "Paid more to said Roger Brock for syses and colles, 3d."
Fourteen founts of Oriental types, new supplies of Hebrew, Greek, and English types, a vast stock of paper from the Bible Society, presses, priceless manuscripts of dictionaries, grammars, and translations, and, above all, the steel punches of the Eastern letters all were there, with the deeds and account-books of the property, and the iron safe containing notes and rupees.
As for me, as long as my tenants pay their rents and my leases are kept up ! You see my account-books: I live in them, gentlemen; and I confess that I know absolutely nothing whatever about that story of which you wrote to me in your letter, M. Massiban " Isidore Beautrelet, nerve-shattered at all this talk, interrupted him bluntly: "I beg your pardon, monsieur, but the book "
These hours which Leonard devoted to study Richard usually spent from home, sometimes at the houses of his grand acquaintances in the Abbey Gardens, sometimes in the Reading-Room appropriated to those aristocrats. If he stayed at home, it was in company with his head clerk, and for the purpose of checking his account-books, or looking over the names of doubtful electors.
She swept me across the passage like a whirlwind, opened the door, shoved me in, and banged it after me before I could collect my senses. The room was small; it was very well filled up by a bureau, a strong box, a table, two chairs, three soldiers, one innkeeper, and myself. The bureau stood by the window, with Maître Menard's account-books on it.
Hamish entered with the account-books under his arm, preparatory to going over them with his father. Constance drew him to her. "Hamish, I have a plan in my head, if we can only carry it out. I am going to tell it you." "One that will set the river on fire?" cried gay, laughing Hamish.
And so in a less degree, but no less truly, than the spirit of Montaigne lives on in the delightful Essays, that of Charles of Orleans survives in a few old songs and old account-books; and it is still in the choice of the reader to make this duke's acquaintance, and, if their humours suit, become his friend. His birth if we are to argue from a man's parents was above his merit.
"We are quite aware that we are not faultless; that we once or twice have planted things upside down, or a yard too deep, besides other little eccentricities of ignorance; but such errors are things of the past, and though we now drive our drills as straight as once, heigho! we ruled our account-books, things don't and won't improve."
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