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The chances were ten to one against the Pass being open after the 1st of October the earliest date by which he could hope to get across. With a sigh, he closed his diaries, emptied the cup of cocoa at a gulp, and took out of his breast-pocket a folded leather frame.
If the remaining volumes of M. de Clinchain's diaries were produced in court, I imagine that other equally startling entries would be found in them." The Count now appeared to have arrived at some decision, and to continue the conversation simply for the purpose of gaining time. "Well," said he, "I will give up this idea; but how do I know that these documents are not forgeries?
"I, Jill, take thee, Jack, to my wedded husband, subject to the mutability of the suburban service, changing trains at , to have and to hold, save when the card club meets on Wednesday evenings, and thereto I give thee my troth." I often wonder how many present-day writers keep diaries.
Neatly and carefully written in a script as readable as type, the books, if I am a judge, had literary style. They were much more than mere diaries.
The diaries and letters of colonial native Jerseymen, the pamphlets of the time, and John Woolman's "Journal," all show a good average of education and an excellent use of the English language.
The diaries were opened, and we occupied ourselves with them the whole day till far into the night; while the pretty girl, sometimes in her old house-dress, sometimes in her new costume, ever hovered before me, backwards and forwards among the most august objects of the Holy Roman Empire. This evening it was impossible to see her, and I lay awake through a very restless night.
Whoever likes to see the extent to which attention was given to the subject can seek instances in the memoirs of public characters who lived in the seventeenth century, in the diaries of minute detailers like the Duke de St.
My diaries are filled with notes and initials and dates which I dared not at the time set down more explicitly; and my memory is often confused between them. For, indeed, my work in France was but child's play to this, neither was there any danger in France such as was here. For consider what, not a double part merely, but a triple, I had to play.
"And you sitting up one side of the street," he gasped, "pretending to be interested in Roman roads, and me on the other pulling a long face over my diaries, and neither of us with a Roman road or a diary to our names.
This last peculiarity, by the way, is of no consequence nowadays, but it is mentioned here for ulterior motives. In the pages of this little black-bound volume there were no scintillating thoughts scribbled there with suspicious neatness of diction, such as one finds in the diaries of great men who, it would seem, are not above post-mortem vanity.
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