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The address, the body of the missive, and the signature, were all in one chirography. She would not have intrusted the writing of this letter to any one else. Sally had learned to write! Moreover, at the end were the words "with love." It was all plain now. Sally had never repudiated him. She was declaring herself true to her mission and her love.
Perhaps if she had been critical if the handwriting had been that of a stranger she might have thought it too bold. Long ago, when she was a very young girl, she had superficially studied the "science" of chirography from articles in a magazine, and had fancied herself a judge. She remembered disliking Mrs.
It was a case of downright theft. The offenders were banished beyond the lines of the army. In a public office at Holly Springs our soldiers found a great number of bills on the Northern Bank of Mississippi. They were in sheets, just as they had come from the press. None of them bore dates or signatures. The soldiers supplied all needed chirography, and the bills obtained a wide circulation.
This envelope had the air of an official record of some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials than at present. There was something about it that quickened an instinctive curiosity, and made me undo the faded red tape, that tied up the package, with the sense that a treasure would here be brought to light.
I wonder if I could counterfeit Sebastian's peculiar chirography." From an inner locked drawer of his escritoire he took a small metal box, and from a number of papers contained therein he selected a letter which he examined closely. "No use to try imitation, when the original document will serve my purpose as well or better," he finally concluded.
You know the old adage but there's the postman, dear; you run and get the letters he has." Agnes did as her mother requested her, and in a few moments more re-entered the room with four letters in one hand, and one letter in the other. The single missive was directed to herself, in a chirography which she well knew. Giving the four to her mother, she sat down and opened her own.
Letters of statesmen and warriors of all nations, and several centuries back, among which, long as it has taken Europe to produce them, I saw none so illustrious as those of Washington, nor more so than Franklin's, whom America gave to the world in her nonage; and epistles of poets and artists, and of kings, too, whose chirography appears to have been much better than I should have expected from fingers so often cramped in iron gauntlets.
"With trembling haste she exposed the inner surface of the paper, and with a glad heart and filial trust read: "'Be not afraid; relief is at hand. "There was no signature; none was needed. "In a moment Lal Lu recognized her father's familiar chirography, and as she reflected upon his well-known sagacity and resourceful boldness, her hope and courage renewed their belated assurances.
The first part of the letter was written in a much clearer chirography than the latter, where it grew fainter and more irregular as it proceeded, until at last, in the signature, it was so nearly illegible as to baffle the ingenuity of the reader to decipher it; as if, in the course of her task, the strength of the dying writer had grown weaker and weaker, until at the end the pen must have fallen from her failing hand.
In such establishments, they can fill every post successfully, but that of overseer: they are too hard with the hands for that. The writing here is curious: concise, square, not flowing, very legible, however, exactly suited to its purpose. People who profess to read character in chirography would decipher but little from these cramped, quiet lines.
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