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Overhead each star was hard and bright, as though a lapidary had been at work in the heavens, and never had the Great Bear seemed so brilliant. But none so bright and legible or so it seemed to me as Mars in all that starry heraldry. "Bon soir, monsieur!" It was the voice of the sentry, and came from behind a barricade of hurdles, thatched with straw, on the crest of the road over the downs.
"Dear me," exclaimed the financier's wife, staring curiously at Shirley, "what a young girl you are to have made such a stir with a book! How did you do it? I'm sure I couldn't. It's as much as I can do to write a letter, and half the time that's not legible." "Oh, it wasn't so hard," laughed Shirley. "It was the subject that appealed rather than any special skill of mine.
Even the children were little living skeletons, wan and yellow, with a spirit of pain and suffering legible upon their fleshless but innocent features while the very dogs, as was well observed, were not able to bark, unless they stood against a wall; for indeed, such of them as survived, were nothing but ribs and skin.
She took it into hers, and after examining the lines for a few seconds said, "The lines in your hand, sir, are very legible so much so that I can read your name in it and it's a name which very few in this country know." The stranger started with astonishment, and was about to speak, but she signed to him to be silent. "You are in love," she continued, "and your sweetheart loves you dearly.
"They have been!" he said. "Their tense is past. Excellent pantaloons, you are no more! Stay, something in the pocket," and he produced a piece of paper. "A letter! ay, now I mind me; it was received on the morning of the gale, when I was absorbed in delicate investigations. It is still legible. From poor dear Casimir! It is as well," he chuckled, "that I have educated him to patience.
'Dora, I think I must be taking you home. The visitor at once made ready for departure, and his leave-taking was as respectful as his entrance had been. Though he might not say what he thought, there was very legible upon his countenance a hope that he would again be privileged to meet Miss Dora Milvain. 'Not a bad fellow, in his way, said Jasper, when Dora and he were alone again.
Then pointing a finger to show he was addressing Jane: "At any rate, you write a good hand?" Monsieur Servien answered for his son, saying it was legible. "Legible! Legible!" repeated the great man throwing his fat hands about. "A copying clerk must write an even hand. Young man, do you write an even hand?"
An hour later, the surgeon who had taken Dan's bullet from his shoulder, handed him a piece of paper, black with faded blood and scarcely legible. "I found that in your jacket," he said. "Is it important?" Chad smiled. "No," he said. "Not now." Once more, and for the last time, Chadwick Buford jogged along the turnpike from the Ohio to the heart of the Bluegrass.
His work of "Roma Sotteranea" is the production of a subterraneous life, passed in fervent and perilous labours. Taking with him a hermit's meal for the week, this new Pliny often descended into the bowels of the earth, by lamp-light, clearing away the sand and ruins till a tomb broke forth, or an inscription became legible.
Here's a rough draft of a part of the letter, and a single passage from it will be enough: "I can conceive of no simpler way to you than the knowledge of your name and address. I have drawn airy images of you, but they do not become incarnate, and I am not sure that I should recognize you in the brief moment of passing. Your nature is not of those which are instantly legible.
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