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Germain as representing the whole mass of Royalist opinion; and he saw clearly that the numerous erasures from the emigrant list had necessarily increased dissatisfaction among the Royalists, since the property of the emigrants had not been restored to its old possessors, even in those cases in which it had not been sold.
She pleaded as an excuse that the sheets of paper were old, written upon, covered with scribbling and erasures, and that she had taken them in preference to nice, clean paper, thinking that I would care much more for the last than for the first. I flew into a violent passion, but I was wrong, for the poor girl had acted with a good intent; her judgment alone had misled her.
Hence it is easy to understand how this prerogative gradually rose in importance, and how with the increasing consolidation of the nobility such erasures assumed virtually the form of judicial decisions and were virtually respected as such.
He held up a sheet of paper half covered with strange characters and erasures. "Look how I've spelled 'allowance' alliwzee! Do you think dad will know what I mean?" Neil shook his head dubiously. "Not unless he's looking for the word," he answered. "Well, he will be," grinned Foster. "Don't suppose you want to buy a fine typewriter at half price, do you?"
One was in the bold, superior scrawl of a boy, the other ineffably feminine in its painstaking regard for legibility and tidiness. These literary efforts had been cut off short in their infancy. David's vigorously written pages, marred by frequent scratchings and erasures, far outnumbered Alix's. Inspection revealed the further fact that she was thrifty.
It was previously submitted to the Commission, and most roughly handled, as was too evident by the number of ERASURES in the blackest ink which appeared throughout.
He observes that the date of the Warrant itself, and the words "upon Saturday last" for the day of the sentence, are written over erasures and in a different hand from the rest, and that the word "Thirtieth" for the day of execution is inserted in a space too large for it; and, for this and other reasons, he arrives at the conclusion that we see the document now in its second state, and that a good number of the signatures were not attached to it on the 29th, but had been attached to it on an earlier day when it was in its first state.
'It's Jon, with her, he thought; 'all Jon! I'm dying out of her it's natural! And, careful not to be seen, he stole back. Next day, after a bad night, he sat down to his task. He wrote with difficulty and many erasures. "You are old enough to understand how very difficult it is for elders to give themselves away to their young.
In fact, I hardly ever make any erasures or alterations, and once my sheet is written and laid aside, I do not look at it again. The next morning I resume the thread, and the story proceeds to the end by logical progression. "I work like a mathematician. Before I begin I know into how many chapters the novel shall be divided.
It consists of twenty-six small folio pages, closely written in a clear hand, though in a few places obscured by the fading of the ink, as well as by occasional erasures and interlineations of the writer. It is, as already stated, confused and unsatisfactory in its statements; and all the latter part has been lost.
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