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Updated: May 10, 2025
"No, come along, Barbara," said Gretel, "leave them alone, it would be horrid to get no Easter eggs wouldn't it?" For many nights Barbara dreamt of the Easter Hare, and at last she made up the following story about him, which she wrote out beautifully in flowing German handwriting in an exercise-book.
"My daughter Michal," said he at last, with a sly assumption of gravity, "we did not finish our pensum to-day. And the rule is: 'Nulla dies sine linea! What does that mean?" "One should never let a day pass without doing one's allotted task," answered Michal. "Then bring hither your exercise-book." The damsel dutifully obeyed.
After that everything was black, as when an inkpot is upset over an exercise-book. Kadambini's memory and consciousness, all the letters of the world's book, in a moment became formless.
It made her quiver almost with terror as he quickly pushed the hair off his forehead and came towards her. "Half-past eight!" he said. "We'd better buck up. Where's your French?" Miriam shyly and rather bitterly produced her exercise-book. Every week she wrote for him a sort of diary of her inner life, in her own French. He had found this was the only way to get her to do compositions.
This incident had filed up a half-score of pages in exercise-book number one, and had flooded Mr. Greyne with hope and aspiration.
Yet she was not without a good many very small and unessential resources for sleepless moments. Often she wrote vague comments on matters with which she was not familiar, in an exercise-book, always eventually mislaid. She would awake from dear and unspeakable dreams full of hope, and tell herself stories about herself, trying on various lives and deaths like clothes.
For over half an hour the two girls scribbled away busily, and a good deal more paper had to be torn from the exercise-book before their literary labours were at an end. Margaret, in addition to her own written hints for Eleanor's guidance, was able to give the latter a folded sheet of notepaper which her grandfather had ordered her to convey to Mrs. Murray.
"The magazine," he began, "is going to be written on exercise-book paper. Any one who likes can contribute, and it's going to be more especially a paper for the Third Form." The speaker went on to show that the periodical was destined to supply a long-felt want.
"I don't suppose the number 13 is much excited about it." The number 13 comes up. The exultant gambler pockets thirty-six times his stake, and then engrosses himself in his exercise-book of figures to find another number which hasn't come up for a long while. He stakes on 7. Thirteen comes up again. "What a fool I was," he whispers in mortification.
But she was always, always truthful, she never told a lie.... She, with her pride, tell a lie! I ... I will show you this diary! You shall see for yourself whether there is the least hint in it of any unhappy love affair! Anna quickly took out of a table-drawer a thin exercise-book, ten pages, no more, and held it out to Aratov.
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