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"Oh, if you choose to prefer his society to mine, Good morning." He walked off with his nose in the air, and, half annoyed, half amused, I went over the hill to the mine, where my father was busily examining some specimens of the lead that had been cut off the corners of some newly-cast ingots. "Well, Sep," he said. "Coming to help?"
George Manville Fenn - Devon Boys: A Tale of the North Shore

The manuscript is the birth of an author's work, and its revision always seems like taking the life out of it; but when the proof comes, it is like a new birth, and he sees his design for the first time in its true proportions. Then he goes over it as the sculptor does his newly-cast bronze, smoothing the rough places and giving it those final touches which serve to make its expression clearer.
Frank Preston Stearns - The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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