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Thus, the signature of Francis Floris, a German engraver, who died about the middle of the seventeenth century, reverses the former of the two FFs, placing them back to back, with the down stroke common to both letters; while that of Francis Frederic Frank, in which the same letter is three times repeated, drove the ingenuity of the artist to a still more curious combination the three letters being kept perfectly independent, yet interlaced, or rather overlapped, so that their lines exhibit a figure which has the curious property, like the cabalistic Abracadabra, of presenting the same appearance from whatever point it may be viewed.
Fitz- Adam! it was a pretty name, and she thought it very probably meant 'Child of Adam. No one, who had not some good blood in their veins, would dare to be called Fitz; there was a deal in a name she had had a cousin who spelt his name with two little ffs ffoulkes and he always looked down upon capital letters and said they belonged to lately-invented families.
She had been afraid he would die a bachelor, he was so very choice. When he met with a Mrs ffarringdon, at a watering-place, he took to her immediately; and a very pretty genteel woman she was a widow, with a very good fortune; and 'my cousin, Mr ffoulkes, married her; and it was all owing to her two little ffs."
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