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Preserve this writing as a curiosity in caligraphy I think it is exquisite all brilliant black blots, and utterly illegible letters. "'The wind bloweth where it listeth. Thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth. That, I believe, is Scripture, though in what chapter or book, or whether it be correctly quoted, I can't possibly say.
One of the most ancient existing specimens of this mode of caligraphy in the fourth century, the Codex Argenteus of Ulphilas, the inventor of the Visigothic alphabet, was discovered in the library of Wolfenbüttel, and is now at Upsal, Sweden.
He had leisure for the indulgence of his delight in books, and he was able to give the rein to his passion for poetry, though it is nowhere recorded that he ever published the numerous essays, sonnets and rhymed pieces which, written in the picturesque caligraphy of the period, and roughly bound by himself in sheepskin, occupied a couple of shelves in his library.
She had an industrious habit of writing what she thought about the works she studied, and there is an interesting record still in existence of her course of reading between the ages of twelve and nineteen. The first entries are made in a careful, unformed, childish hand, and with diffidence evidently; but they became rapidly decided both in caligraphy and tone as she advanced.
Tarling saw his face lengthen and the look of apprehension in his cold blue eyes. Then, without further hesitation, he opened the paper and read. The first line took away his breath. "Good God!" he muttered and read on. There were only half a dozen lines and they were in the firm caligraphy of the girl.
She obtained permission to keep the letter, with the intention of transmitting it per post to an advertising interpreter of character in caligraphy. Such was the character of the fair young heiress, exhibited by her performances much more patently than the run of a quill would reveal it. She said, 'It is rather a pretty hand, I think. 'Mrs. Warwick is a practised writer, said Lady Wathin.
Eve handed him the letter, which he held, awestruck, with the tip of his thumb and finger. "He doesn't write very well he, he!" he added, with a chuckle. "I'm afraid it's no good my trying to read it without my glasses." He blinked at the crabbed spidery caligraphy, and handed the letter back. "It is signed John Craik, but Providence held the pen," said Eve.
Whether he has sustained a loss or an addition to his family, whether he wants you to dine with him at the club or to lend him ten pounds, his handwriting at least will be the same, unless, indeed, he be offended, when he will generally indite your name with a studious precision and a distant grace quite foreign to his ordinary caligraphy.
The few lines were very clear, written in a large, decided handwriting, considerably larger, or so it seemed to Sylvia, than what she had thought Anna's ordinary hand to be. But then the Englishwoman had not had the opportunity of seeing much of her Polish friend's caligraphy. Before she had quite finished reading the mysterious letter over a second time, Madame Malfait took it out of her hand.
Dion opened the book, and saw on the title page: "Cynthia Clarke, Constantinople, October 1896," written in a curiously powerful, very upright caligraphy. "It doesn't belong to Guy." "No; it was lent to him by his client, Mrs. Clarke." Dion turned some of the leaves of the book, began to read and was immediately absorbed. "By Jove, it's wonderful, it's simply splendid!" he said in a moment.
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