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Well, Si hadn't more than finished before the whole crowd was off whooping down the street toward Binder's. As soon as they got in range of the house they began shooting at the windows and yelling for him to come out if he was a man, but it appeared that Binder wasn't a man leastways, he didn't come out and investigation showed that he was streaking it back for Connecticut.
In vivid contrast to these lovely specimens of the binder's art, are found innumerable bibliopegic horrors, on the shelves of countless libraries, public and private. Among these are to be reckoned most law books, clad in that dead monotony of ugliness, which Charles Dickens has described as "that under-done pie-crust cover, which is technically known as law calf."
"Well, I remember, because it struck me as odd that dad should be interested; it was Emerson, you know; and dad looked at the book in the light from the stove and asked me what the name was down in the inside of the cover. It was the binder's name in small letters, Z. Fenelsa. Well, there's a long story about that.
It was a surprise to meet him at All Saints on St. Peter's day. "Come with us, Infanta," he said, pausing at the door of the carriage. "I am to have my drive early to-day, as the ladies are going to this great garden-party." Sydney said she would walk home with Mrs. Brownlow, and be taken up when Babie was set down. Fordham gave the word to go to the binder's.
I was sitting upon the carpet, where I had cast all our treasures of knowledge, in the various guises of the printer's and binder's art, and was selecting the books that I fondly thought would be essential to my existence, when Saul came in. He looked down upon me with that look that always drinks up my sight into his, and said, "You are sorry to go, Lucy. I will stay." "No, Saul, I wish to go.
She went to take a specimen from the bookcase, a white parchment volume with gold tooling, a crimson fleur-de-lys painted on the front cover. "Aren't they lovely? An idea! We'll take some of them up to her and ask her to write her name in them. Wouldn't that be flattering?" "Ye ... es." "I've been trying to read some of it over since these came home from the binder's. My!
Here a most noble French dinner and banquet, the best I have seen this many a day and good discourse. Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope, London, 1665," a very remarkable work with elaborate plates, some of which have been used for lecture illustrations almost to our own day.
Marshman and himself over the church at Serampore, he took with him into the pulpit the first copy of the sacred volume which came from the binder's hands, and addressed the converts and their children from the words of Simeon "Lord now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation."
Here a most noble French dinner and banquet, the best I have seen this many a day and good discourse. Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope, London, 1665," a very remarkable work with elaborate plates, some of which have been used for lecture illustrations almost to our own day.
So to Paul's Churchyarde about my books, and to the binder's and directed the doing of my Chaucer, The book is bound in calf, with brass clasps and bosses. though they were not full neate enough for me, but pretty well it is; and thence to the clasp-maker's to have it clasped and bossed. So to the 'Change and home to dinner, and so to my office till 5 o'clock, and then came Mr.
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