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"The person I wished to see was here on Friday, between three and six in the afternoon; and she was waiting for a visitor with an anxiety which could not possibly have escaped your notice." This detail quickened the memory of the man with the magnifying glass none other than the woman's husband and landlord of the hotel.
"I kem back hyar ter tell ye," the doughty deliverer began, with an air of great importance, and magnifying his office with an extreme relish, "that I can't go an' tell Pete 'bout'n the rope till I hev done kem back from the mill. I hev got old Sorrel hitched out hyar a piece, with a bag o' corn on his back, what I hev ter git ground at the mill.
They were damp, grubby places, but even there an imaginative child like Mary Gray could find suggestions of delight. Mary's father, Walter Gray, was employed at a watchmaker's of repute. He spent all his working life with a magnifying glass in his eye, peering into the mechanism of watches, adjusting the delicate pivots and springs on which their lives moved.
"If you examine these exhibits, gentlemen, I think you will agree that the betrayed code and the business letters were written on one and the same machine. The use of the magnifying glass makes it even more plain." Then Mr. Morton sat down. "Now, young Mr. Drayne, what have you to say?" demanded the presiding officer.
Solander observed as well as Mr. Green and myself, and we differ'd from one another in Observing the times of the Contact much more than could be expected. Mr. Green's Telescope and mine where of the same Magnifying power, but that of the Doctor was greater than ours.
At length came the neighbors, their relatives and friends, some poorer than others, in their simplicity magnifying the fears. The most active of all was Sister Bali, a great panguinguera, who had been to Manila to practise religious exercises in the nunnery of the Sodality.
Well here is Drayne's recent examination paper in modern literature. It is, of course, in his own handwriting." Eagerly the two football men and their coach bent over to compare Drayne's handwriting with that on the envelope that had come back from Milton. "There has been an attempt at disguise," announced Mr. Morton, using a magnifying glass over the two specimens of writing.
With the aid of the magnifying glass the expert carefully examined the parchment and then held it up to the light. "The blot was in the middle of the signature and involved the letters 'a' and 'r. Is that right?" "That is right, Mr. Cooper; he used blotting paper to it at once, and it did not show up very strongly."
The creeping plants about the old manor-house were bowed with rows of heavy water drops, which had upon objects behind them the effect of minute lenses of high magnifying power. Just before the clock struck five Gabriel Oak and Coggan passed the village cross, and went on together to the fields.
These mountains of marble were peopled with the sisterhood of Allegory, winged trumpeters, and classic figures in full-bottomed wigs; but it was strange to observe how the old Abbey melted all such absurdities into the breadth of its own grandeur, even magnifying itself by what would elsewhere have been ridiculous.
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