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"Take them, take these dreadful books!" she said, pushing away the notebooks lying before her on the table. "Why did you give them me? No, it was better anyway," she added, touched by his despairing face. "But it's awful, awful!" His head sank, and he was silent. He could say nothing. "You can't forgive me," he whispered. "Yes, I forgive you; but it's terrible!"
A young fellow recently finished the works of Thomas Carlyle, winding up, if we remember aright, with the ten notebooks upon Frederick the Great. "What!" cried the young fellow, in consternation, "is there no more Carlyle? Am I left to the daily papers?" A more celebrated instance is that of Alexander, who wept bitterly because he had no more worlds to subdue.
Not knowing what to make of the incident, but feeling inclined to attribute it to a trick of the imagination, I rejoined my friends. I did not tell them what had happened, although I made a memorandum of it in one of my innumerable notebooks.
And all the time policemen were going through the crowd, asking questions and writing things down in their notebooks. They were looking rather haggard, David thought. 8: In Which David and the Phoenix Visit a Banshee, and a Surprise Is Planted in the Enemy's Camp
Strange how it amuses one to see little bits of oneself on paper, and the less garnished and franker the truths the more entertaining it is. The hours here are so long and boring at times that I feel I want to talk intimately with someone. Failing Zoe I turn to my notebooks.
There were some who spoke fluent English but no other tongue; these progressed into German with a German-to-English comparison dictionary, and then into French via a German-to-French comparison and were finally checked out in French by French-speaking examiners. And Professor White's block diagram grew complex, and Dr. Persons's histograms filled pages and pages of his broad notebooks.
He had a bullock-cart loaded with specimens, sketches and notebooks, and he set to work to sort them out.
Then, emerging from that sinister dumb groan, he distinguished a crunching sound, and knew that it was no muttering echo of men's struggles, but only the waggons journeying to Covent Garden Market. Thyme Dallison, in the midst of her busy life, found leisure to record her recollections and ideas in the pages of old school notebooks.
I am delighted with my situation and more than ever convinced of the wisdom of my course in coming to Italy." Morse's little notebooks and sketch-books are filled with short, abrupt notes on the paintings, religious ceremonies, and other objects of interest by which he is surrounded, but sometimes he goes more into detail.
Wilson and Bowers were found in the attitude of sleep, their sleeping-bags closed over their heads as they would naturally close them. Scott died later. He had thrown back the flaps of his sleeping-bag and opened his coat. The little wallet containing the three notebooks was under his shoulders and his arm flung across Wilson. So they were found eight months later.
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