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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.
And with a smile which held a spice of malice she handed him the paper. Upon it there were ten rhymed couplets. Wogan solved the first four, and found that the initial letters of the words were C, L, E, M. The answer to the acrostic was "Clementina." Wogan gave the paper back. "I can make neither head nor tail of it," said he. "The attempt is beyond my powers."
I must show you an acrostic a gentleman he was a lieutenant in the 53rd made upon it. Oh! we shall have a great deal to say to each other, I foresee! 'But about Cynthia? 'Oh, yes! about dear Cynthia. What do you want to know, my dear? 'Papa said she was to live with us! When will she come? 'Oh, was it not sweet of your kind father?
Burrows asked, "How many understand now what an acrostic is?" A few more hands were raised, but many of the boys did not understand yet; it must be made plainer. "Howard," said Mr. Burrows, "come to the board and give us an acrostic on the word boy." Howard sprang up. "Must it be a sensible one, sir?" "Sense or nonsense, just as you please, so as it shows us what an acrostic is."
Sabre was also fond of chess and attracted by acrostics; and regular evenings of every week were spent by the two in unriddling the problems set in the chess and acrostic columns of journals taken in for the purpose.
Burrows, one Monday afternoon, "you may lay aside your books; I want to have a talk with you." Mr. Burrows drew out his arm-chair from behind the desk, and sat down for a chat. "Who will tell me what an acrostic is?" Several hands were raised. "Well, Howard, let us hear what you think about it." "It's a piece of poetry, sir, where the first letter of every line spells another word."
See, Jacqueline, Charlotte Foushee has the newest bonnet yet!" "That is Commodore Truxtun coming in with Edmund Randolph. He looks a seaman, every inch of him! Who is the young gentleman in blue?" "Oh, that," replied Unity, "is Mr. Washington Irving of New York. He has just returned from the Grand Tour, and he writes most beautifully. He has sent me an acrostic for my keepsake that that "
Oh, here's something for Steve Murray: chicken butcher, eighty dollars; here's a job I'd like," she cried, "ice-cream man, one hundred dollars." "Quit your kidding," said Jimmy. "I'm looking for a job, not an acrostic." "Well," she said, "here are two solid pages of them, but nobody seems to want a waiter. What else can you do?" she asked smiling up at him.
She engaged to bring them the first time she came in town, for she lives about two miles from here. I this day received it, precisely as you have it. You may depend upon its being the work of her own hands. If this don't deserve an acrostic, I don't know sense, beauty, modesty, and music. Matter plenty.
Nor does it matter how you gauge and try him. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. In this pleasing contrite wood-life which God allows me, let me record day by day my honest thought without prospect or retrospect, and, I cannot doubt, it will be found symmetrical, though I mean it not and see it not.
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