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The exploits of Nechayeff, of Bakounin, and of certain Spanish and Italian sections had all conveyed to the world an impression of the International which perhaps could never be altogether erased. Furthermore, in Germany and other countries the seeds of an actual working-class political movement had been planted, and there was already promise of a huge development in the national organizations.
Duplicity in black and white did hurt her a good deal, and she sometimes stopped, in the midst of her slow transcription, to look up piteously and say aloud: "I hope I shall be forgiven!" But by the time the stamp was on, and the pencil ruling erased, her heart was light again. If she had sinned, she was finding the path intoxicatingly pleasant.
He footed from bottom to top, checked the result by footing from top to bottom, erased his light penciled figures and rewrote them in ink, laid the sheet to one side and folded his hands in resignation. "I knew it was coming, Rog. I've seen the signs for weeks past. You've been ramping round like a man in prison. Dang it, Rog, I'm sorry." "Jim," said Roger, "this is no business for me to be in."
This he erased, and instead thereof inserted these words: "When it pleased Almighty God to put a period to her life." He graciously allowed the Universities to be nurseries of loyalty; but did not think that it became him to style them "nurseries of religion."
The mixture had deepened in tint and thickened. Wherever the brush rested a deep, luminous color sprang to meet it. It moved swiftly across the monogram and paused. The artist peered forward uncertainly. The letters lay erased in the dim light. With another stroke of the brush and another they were gone forever. The smile of satisfaction deepened on his lips.
I may add that the visit of the deceased to Allerton's Farm, and the general nature of the alarm there, apart from his particular explanation, have been absolutely established. With this foreword I append his account exactly as he left it. It is in the form of a diary, some entries in which have been expanded, while a few have been erased. April 17.
"That's why you wanted Bendigo Redmayne's log then?" "One of the reasons certainly. The diary may be here yet. You can use your eyes when we are away and try to find it. If you are allowed to stumble on it, note particularly any pages torn out or erased or faked." "You still believe that those about Mr. Redmayne are criminals ? "I believe that it becomes necessary to prove they are not.
Numberless little tid-bits of description that anybody else would have struck out with reluctance, as, for instance, that of Scrooge looking cautiously behind the street door when he entered, "as if he half expected to be terrified with the sight of Marley's pigtail sticking out into the hall," were unhesitatingly erased by the Reader, as, from his point of view, not necessarily to the purpose.
Then Ernest counted his own manuscript with equal care no easy task when one took into consideration the interlined or erased passages and, to his infinite disgust, discovered that it only extended to seven hundred and fifty words. 'Why, Edie, he said, in a very disappointed tone, 'how little it prints into! I should certainly have thought I'd written at least a whole column.
But as he looked upon the thousands and thousands as they marched along, and remembered the depleted ranks of the Southern army, his only wonder was that the South had held out so long as it did. Defeated they were, but their deeds are carved deep in the temple of fame, never to be erased.
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