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He was also a great admirer of Burns, whose writings so inflamed his mind that at the age of twenty-two, when barely out of his apprenticeship, we find the young mason actually breaking out in verse.* By diligently reading all the books that he could borrow from friends and neighbours, Telford made considerable progress in his learning; and, what with his scribbling of "poetry" and various attempts at composition, he had become so good and legible a writer that he was often called upon by his less-educated acquaintances to pen letters for them to their distant friends.
He was enfeebled now, and the power of the enemy seemed without a possibility of opposition from either his intellectual or corporeal powers. Of all their horrible dialogue, only these words were legible in the manuscript, "You know me now." "I always knew you."
"You were about to add some other name?" said he; "in the mean time compose yourself and proceed." Hycy Burke's face at this moment had become white as a sheet; in fact, to any one of common penetration, guilt and a dread of the coming disclosure were legible in every lineament of it. "Who was the other person you were about to mention?" asked Vanston. "His own son, sir, Mr. Hycy Burke, there."
Even Cecilia requires an effort, and does not repay that effort very well. Only Evelina itself is legible and relegible for reasons which will be given presently.
The most legible inscription is "IHS cyppe me out of all al compane. Amen." Other boards bear the notches cut by prisoners to mark the lapse of time. The eight rings remain to which the prisoners were secured: one feels that his companions must have envied the one by the window. Above some of the rings the boards are burned with the hot-iron used in torture.
"Take Virgil, a dictionary, and a grammar, and translate from Latin into French for ever and for ever; to make a good version you need only common sense and very little grammatical knowledge or other pedantic accessories. "Imagine an old inscription half-effaced: correctness of judgment partly supplies the missing words, and the sense appears as if the whole were legible.
The third he turned over several times before he opened it. It did not look much like a letter. It was torn and ragged at the edges, and was so soiled and water-stained that the address on it was only partly legible. It had been to Fond du Lac, and from there it had followed him to Fort Chippewyan.
It had been written with such a trembling hand that it was scarcely legible; but I knew the writing too well. "If you ever loved me, Caroline, read this do not tear it the moment you see the name of Julia: she has suffered she is humbled. I left France with the hope of seeing you once more; but now I am so near you, my courage fails, and my heart sinks within me.
"And always the same things happened?" "Yes, or nearly so, the writing growing more legible all the time." "And then?" "Then, three nights ago, I grew brave enough to go and stand by the desk, and look over his shoulder, as it were, while he wrote the note which I showed you this morning." "You mean that he actually did write it while you were looking over his shoulder?"
Some ten years ago, there came to you a man on a secret business. He had an old musty bit of parchment, on which were written some words, hardly legible, in an antique hand, an old deed, it might have been, some family document, and here and there the letters were faded away.
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