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"Ever hear of anything like a code in the office a secret code?" asked the m. e., who had held his desk for only two years. Managing editors come and go. "None except the vernacular that the lady specials write in," said Boyd. "Couldn't be an acrostic, could it?" "I thought of that," said the m. e., "but the beginning letters contain only four vowels. It must be a code of some sort."
Everywhere and always the same, the egotistical and amiable Maurice takes the lion's share, and Amedee, listening only with one ear to the large Margot, who is already begging him to make an acrostic for her, thinks Rosine is charming, while Maurice says a thousand foolish things to her.
The old man sank into a chair and remained with his head buried in his hands. "Say," he exclaimed presently, "someone's firing guns and there's a glimmering light somewhere. You'd better go upstairs again." Again the child returned. "The crew are guessing at an acrostic, and occasionally they get a glimmering of it." Meantime the fury of the storm increased.
He had a curious habit, had Henry, of commenting aloud upon his own unspoken thoughts, thereby bestowing upon his conversation much of the quality of the double acrostic.
Maurice had tact; he noticed that Rosine and Amedee were agitated, and, feeling that he was de trop, he arose suddenly and said: "Now then, Margot. Come on! these children want to talk over their childhood, I think. Give up your acrostic, my child. Take my arm, and come and have a turn." When they were alone Amedee gazed at Rosine sadly.
He accepted his hospitality, thinking that with time he would persuade him to allow the attempt; and after supper, while making riddles in verse to amuse some of the ladies of the court, one of them, the Countess of Berg, came forward from a corner where she had been busy with pencil and paper and said, "It is our turn now. Here, Mr. Warner, is an acrostic which I ask you to solve for me."
"He seems to have been fond of writing in his books," said Lindsay. "What's this opposite his name?" On the inside of the cover quite a long piece of poetry had been copied. It appeared to be something in the nature of an acrostic or charade, and it ran thus: My First, among flowers you can't find a better, 'T was used by a king for securing a letter.
The lover was thunder-struck with his misfortune, insomuch that in a little time after he lost his senses, which, indeed, had been very much impaired by that continual application he had given to his anagram. The acrostic was probably invented about the same time with the anagram, though it is impossible to decide whether the inventor of the one or the other were the greater blockhead.
Without doubt it is the Nosce Teipsum so much admired by King James, printed 1519, and 1622, mentioned by Wood; to which were added by the same hand: Hymns of Astrea in acrostic verse; and Orchestra, or a poem expressing the antiquity and excellency of dancing, in a dialogue between Penelope and one of her Woers, containing 131 stanzas unfinished. Mr.
He replied now: "It is true; soon he will vie with me and you." The old scholar took snuff impatiently. The humors of Pinchas were beginning to pall upon him. "Good-bye," he said again. "No, wait, yet a little," said Pinchas, buttonholing him resolutely. "I want to show you my acrostic on Simon Wolf; ah!
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