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The cheerful grins would be wiped from the two strong faces as by an artist who, with a stroke, changes the expression of a portrait. Peter Rolls's word was at least as good as Jim Logan's. Questions would be asked. Jottings would be made in notebooks. Perhaps they would both have to go to the police station. The girl's name would be demanded; Logan might be forced to tell it.
Her brain was becoming a mere receptacle for dates and definitions, vocabularies and rules syntactic, for thrice-boiled essence of history, ragged scraps of science, quotations at fifth hand, and all the heterogeneous rubbish of a "crammer's" shop. When away from her books, she carried scraps of paper, with jottings to be committed to memory. Beside her plate at meals lay formulae and tabulations.
'Except bullets, said Miss Willoughby Beauty rewarding Valour with a smile and a glance so dazzling that the good little Yeoman blushed with pleasure. 'It is a shame! thought Logan. 'I don't like it now I see it. 'As to horror of cats, said the Earl, 'I suppose evolution can explain it. I wonder how they would work it out in Science Jottings. There is a great deal of electricity in a cat.
One book gives views about the Simplon Pass, another the sea-coast from Nice to Genoa, another contains countless jottings from the pictures in the Vatican, another is taken up with views in Paris and Rouen, and several are devoted to Scottish scenery.
But now we are approaching the narrower part of the Channel and the sea is getting choppy. I shall have to give up my jottings for a while. Still later: F finally picked a spot she considered suitable the remains of a small harbor and we anchored. I must say she was overfussy one cove is pretty much the same as another these days. Possibly she was so choosy in order to heighten her importance.
I can remember to have written, in the fly-leaf of more than one book, the date and the place where I then was if, for instance, I was ill in bed or sitting in a certain garden; these were jottings for my future self; if I should chance on such a note in after years, I thought it would cause me a particular thrill to recognise myself across the intervening distance.
A beam of light stabbed the darkness of his berth, and putting his eye with some difficulty to the hole one's nose gets so confoundedly in the way he saw Hagan comfortably arranging himself for the night. Hagan went through them he had put his suit-case across his knees to form a desk and carefully made marginal jottings.
"I couldn't live without this book," she said extravagantly. "In it I have all sorts of treasured clippings and jottings. The things I need most I have pasted in. The chafing dish recipes are in an envelope. I just happened to have them along." She was turning the pages as she spoke. On one page, which she passed by more hurriedly than the others, were a number of Kodak pictures.
In regard to Pitt's Speeches, in particular, his brief jottings, done rapidly while the matter was still shining to him, are the only Reports that have the least human resemblance. We may thank Walpole that Pitt is not dumb to us, as well as dark.
Then, after several experiments I got the snake's mouth open and the lid swung upward on chilled hinges. Within it was a manuscript. As soon as I looked at it I recognized the handwriting of my old friend, Doctor Jack Odin. Well, it was just as before. It was more of a series of notes and jottings than a story. It took months to piece it together. Several pages were badly burned and spotted.
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