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He went into details of the new operations, and when he finished Nairn looked up from the figures he had been jotting down. "Yon workings will cost a good deal," he pointed out "Ye will no be able to make a start until we're sure of the money." "We ought to get it." Nairn looked thoughtful.
The soldier had become a man of letters, jotting down for himself, not for the public, all that struck him in his observation and his reading; mingling in all societies, knowing them all, but esteeming only one, that of honest people; and thus letting the years pass by, without suspecting that they were flying, regarding himself somewhat as a man away on a visit, and suddenly awaking one fine morning almost old, wondering how he had lived all this time of exile which, despite many mental troubles, seemed to him to have lasted only a few months.
He brought forward scheme after scheme, and the corporation was made to address the legislature, and then the legislature was pestered to accede to the prayer of the corporation, until everybody was wrought to a pitch of nervous irritation; he himself was always jotting in his Diary what he had on foot, mixed with his hopes and prayers. December 11th. "December 28th.
Denton had long ago given up the practice of jotting down her thoughts, experience having taught her that so often, when one comes to use them, one finds that one has changed them. But in the case of Joan the recollection of these twin "oddments" might have saved her disappointment. Joan knew of a new road that avoided Mrs. Denton's pitfalls. She grew impatient of being perpetually pulled back.
Made a jotting of the departure of Lord Curzon from the Apollo Bundar. It was a very brilliant affair; any number of white uniforms sparkling with gold, and ladies in exquisite dresses, and with cameras with which they shot the departing couple from the stone buttresses.
As he did so a glow of pleasure came over his large expressive face, a flush of such enthusiasm as the botanist feels when he packs the rare plant into his tin knapsack, or the astronomer when the long-sought comet first swims into the field of his telescope. "This is very typical very typical indeed," he murmured, turning to his desk and jotting down a few memoranda upon a sheet of paper.
But I don't know where the money to do it is going to come from." "Shingles for the roof, three," said Dorinda, as if she were carefully jotting down something in a mental memorandum. Yes, yes, you must have them, dearest. It's absolutely necessary. We can wait a year or so for college courses and music lessons to grow; we can set basins under the leaks and borrow some more if we haven't enough.
If left by the author in its present form it represents the daily jotting down of thoughts on the subject as they occurred to him. In two points the writer appears in an unfavourable light in his love of gain, and in his brutal treatment of his slaves. With him farming is no mere amusement, nor again is it mere labour.
I will only ask one other question, Gilbert, and you need not be afraid to answer me fully and freely. Have you any debts at Oxford? 'A few, stammered Gilbert, with a great effort. 'Can you tell me to whom, and the amount? He tried to recollect as well as he could, while completely frightened and confused by the gravity with which his father was jotting them down in his pocket-book.
Dollard straightened aggressively and with an oath passed out, slamming the door behind him. The closed door muffled somewhat the grumbling from the group on the veranda. Now it increased, plentifully interlarded with profanity. Sam Thayor, sitting at his desk, did not move. He drew from a drawer a packet of vouchers and began studying them, jotting the totals upon the yellow pad.
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