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Updated: June 2, 2025
The smaller a white envelope, superscribed in Annabel's cramped little hand he thrust indifferently into his pocket, and the larger a fat, yellow envelope, covered with the good Deacon's massive crow-tracks, and securely fastened by a dab of sealing wax, pressed down with a cent he studied with tender interest. It had come directly from her home from her father.
In his numerous and capacious pockets, besides a watch and a pocket compass, was a store of note-books, in which he was accustomed to jot his rapid, lightning-like notes, which meant "reading without tears" for him, but woe and sorrow to those who had to knit their brows in trying to decipher his "crow-tracks."
'She is older than I am, she said to herself; 'there are crow-tracks around her eyes, and her complexion is not a bit better than mine was before I spoiled it with soap-suds, and stove heat, and everything else. Then she looked at her hands, but they were red and rough, and the nails were broken and not at all like the nails which an expert has polished for an hour or more. Mrs.
He protested, but not for long, for he hated to venture out there among the dreadfully learned colleges and try to understand stuff written in letters that look like crow-tracks. He packed his suit-case slowly, feeling that he was very wicked in leaving Oxford's opportunities. Mr. Wrenn rode down on a Tottenham Court Road bus, viewing the quaintness of London.
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