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Updated: May 31, 2025
There among his papers, untouched by the old man from that fine instinct of grief that characterized the aged, I found a number of letters, too illegible ever to have been sent to Mademoiselle de Villenoix. My familiarity with Lambert's writing enabled me in time to decipher the hieroglyphics of this shorthand, the result of impatience and a frenzy of passion.
He dictated them on board the vessel, where every man who could write was employed in copying them. These copies soon became very scarce; many of them were illegible; and it was of till he arrived at Gap, on the 5th of March, that he found means to have them printed. They were from that time circulated and read everywhere with the utmost avidity.
Of these, Graham, bright, witty, versatile, the most notorious of punsters and the most illegible of writers, was his chief intimate, and their friendship continued unbroken and close for half a century. But meanwhile the shadow was deepening over the home at Dunglass. All through the autumn and early winter his father was slowly sinking.
Even as the insignificant earth-worm may bring the precious and many coloured jewel to the surface, so has it been permitted to this obscure and superficially educated one to discover the truth of the entire matter among the badly-arranged and frequently really illegible documents preserved at the Hall of Public Reference at Peking.
Whenever any strangers arrived, the paper was taken out and turned over and over, so that the address, which was only written in pencil, became almost illegible, and at last no one could distinguish any letters on it at all. For a whole year the bottle remained standing in the cupboard, and then it was taken up to the loft, where it soon became covered with dust and cobwebs.
On the guest-book of the Inter-Mountain one of the men at the table in the private dining-room had registered from Chicago. The name was illegible to the cursory eye, but since it was the signature of a notable empire-builder, it was sufficiently well known in all the vast region served by the Transcontinental Railway System.
Demetrio asked indolently. The man persisted, lamenting and weeping. Luis Cervantes was about to throw him out with an insult. But Camilla intervened. "Come on, Demetrio, don't be harsh, give him an order to get his corn back." Luis Cervantes was obliged to obey; he scrawled a few lines to which Demetrio appended an illegible scratch. "May God repay you, my child!
A feverish sort of life is led here day and night, as deficient addresses must be completed, and the illegible ones deciphered. It may here be mentioned that the delivery of letters to each floor of apartment houses is limited chiefly to Austria and Germany. In France and England, the letters are delivered to the janitor or else thrown into the letter box placed in the hall.
Some held, tight clasped in their hands, crumpled bits of paper the petition, presumably, over which all this trouble arose stained, torn, almost illegible now, useless, yet still a symbol of the fight that was being waged.
The part of the letter immediately following is illegible, but presently it goes on to say that Lanier is much trusted by his brother Purbeck; that Lanier will not otherwise be able to keep his brother with him; and that, if he leaves, Sir Robert and Lady Purbeck "by their crafty insinuations will draw from him speeches to their advantage."
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