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The punctuation was horrible. A few commas and periods and a larger number of colons were "pepered and salted" a la Timothy Dexter, apparently quite by chance, among the words.
Even the lines read backward and in Arabic writing there are no commas or capitals and the vowels are written not next to the consonants but stuck up above them. Potato in Arabic would be written with English letters this way: O A O T T P Can you read it? In your country a carpenter stands at his bench to work, but here they sit on the ground.
He smiled as he thought of the god's image for it made him think of a bottle-nosed judge in a wig, putting commas into a document which he held at arm's length, and he knew that he would not have remembered the god's name but that it was like an Irish oath. It was folly.
After all, I thought, that unlucky plagiarist is no worse than most of us: for is it not true that few of us live as conscientiously as we should within our inverted commas? We are far more inclined to live in that author, not ourselves, who makes for originality.
"Virginia," he said, "let us leave all this and drive round the park and I will talk to you like a lover in a bad book and I will mean every word I say." "We can't go yet," she murmured. "Virginia," his voice was urgent "I will be divinely pompous." That was so like him. He always tried to safeguard the simplest, most sincere moments of his life by inverted commas.
Thus they got halfway through the repast, which the young priest had not yet touched, hungering only for Imperia, near whom he was already seated, but speaking that sweet language which the ladies so well understand, that has neither stops, commas, accents, letters, figures, characters, notes, nor images.
"Perhaps he was the clergyman's son," returned Miss Prudence seriously. "Well, then," declared Marjorie, "I guess there were eight people! Mr. Miller, the clergyman, the son, the lawyer, Mr. Angelo, a foreigner, a lady, and a child!" "Placing a comma after each there are eight persons," said Miss Prudence making the commas. "Yes," assented Marjorie, watching her.
Then follows a Latin passage from which the English is paraphrased. "We presume," continues Freeman in fancied triumph, "that the words put by Mr. Froude in inverted commas are not Lord Burghiey's summary of the Latin extract in the note, but Mr.
Moorhouse's remarks with my own, and to preserve a uniformity in the descriptions, it has not been practicable or desirable in all cases, to separate or distinguish by inverted commas, those observations which I have adopted. I have, therefore, preferred making a general acknowledgment of the use I have made of the notes that were supplied to me by Mr.
It is to contain, among a variety of brilliant matter, seventy-eight words in large capitals, and six original quotations in inverted commas. Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said—of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy; perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.
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