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I say 'his wishes, for that he meant to include this note-book among the miscellaneous papers directed 'to be burnt, I think there can be no manner of doubt. Whether it escaped the flames by good fortune or by bad, yet remains to be seen. That Von Kempelen and his immediate friends will reap a rich harvest, it would be folly to doubt for a moment.
He was glad of this for the peculiar nature of his enterprise rendered a companion altogether undesirable, and though on one occasion he encountered a gentleman-novelist with a note-book, who was exceedingly anxious to fraternize with him and discover whither he vas bound, he succeeded in shaking off this would-be incubus at Mosul, by taking him to a wonderful old library in that city where there were a number of French translations of Turkish and Syriac romances.
I caught sight of him through the cabin skylight, and the silver pencil he was holding over his note-book showed unmistakable marks of teeth. Outside, Mr. Trevor, his face wearing an immutable expression of defiance for the wickedness surrounding him, had placed his daughter for safe-keeping between himself and the only other reliable character on board, the refrigerator.
I have among the papers that were sent me by the young man, after the affair was over, a note-book of his, in which a complete account is given of the phenomenon of the disappearance of the "matter" of the assassin, and the thoughts to which it gave rise in the mind of my young friend.
In either case it was a good pocket that Mark Twain missed by one pail of water. Still, without knowing it, he had carried away in his note-book a single nugget of far greater value the story of "The Jumping Frog." He did not write it, however, immediately upon his return to San Francisco. He went back to his "Enterprise" letters and contributed some sketches to the Californian.
He took out a little note-book and wrote that down carefully. "And now," he continued, "God keep you, my friend. We must win, for we fight with a rope around our necks." "But you, Captain Paul," I said, "is is there no one?" His face took on the look of melancholy it had worn so often of late, despite his triumphs. That look was the stamp of fate.
There was no answer. The pencil went on writing. "Mayn't we look over?" Kathleen said again." Of course you may!" said the voice near the paper. "I nodded, didn't I? Oh, I forgot, my nodding's invisible too."T he pencil was forming round, clear letters on the page torn out of the note-book. This is what it wrote: "DEAR AUNT, I am afraid you will not see me again for some time.
Though he was on board the Bellaconda, he might just as well have been in an airship, or riding along on the back of a donkey, as far as his knowledge, or recognition, of his surroundings went. He seemed to be thinking thoughts far, far away, and he was never without a book either a bound volume or a note-book.
So it says in my note-book. Shall we put Lord Palmet to speak to him first? 'If his lordship will put his heart into what he says, Mr. Oggler bowed. 'Are you for giving the people recreation on a Sunday, my lord? 'Trap-bat and ball, cricket, dancing, military bands, puppet-shows, theatres, merry-go-rounds, bosky dells anything to make them happy, said Palmet.
"The only trouble about this place," said Ayling, as he surveyed the last position, "is that my fire will be masked by that house with the clump of trees beside it." The Engineer produced a small note-book, and wrote in it by the light of a convenient star-shell. "Right-o!" he said. "I'll have the whole caboodle pushed over for you by to-morrow night. Anything else?"
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