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In the morning, every trace of the visitor had vanished, even to the thorn stick which he had set down behind the door as he entered. All this Robert Falconer saw slowly revive on the palimpsest of his memory, as he washed it with the vivifying waters of recollection. It was a very bare little room in which the boy sat, but it was his favourite retreat.
Such was the argument that Oak set outwardly before him. But man, even to himself, is a palimpsest, having an ostensible writing, and another beneath the lines. It is possible that there was this golden legend under the utilitarian one: "I will help to my last effort the woman I have loved so dearly."
I conjecture that there is no important palimpsest whose upper writing is later than the eleventh century. The fate of the early books is rather obscure to me, but I see that bits of them were not uncommonly used for lining covers and fly-leaves for MSS. of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, and perhaps still oftener as wrappers for documents.
Rome, for a time, was darkened with grief and anxiety; nor did the city itself impress her as she had expected: "It's a palimpsest Rome," she writes, "a watering-place written over the antique." The chief gains of these Roman months were those of friendship and pleasant acquaintances added to those already given by Italy.
Mocking a nation's history! as though the career of any people even of the lowest African savages possessing no record were not a page in the general history of mankind, written by the hand of God Himself. The very lost races are a palimpsest to be deciphered by a seeing eye.
"Ah, Létonne," he interrupted, "our old friendship is dead dead by violence. Friends have said things to me before, called me names, and I have stood it. But none of them ever dared call me a palimpsest. Thou hast called me a palimpsest!" Leighton seemed not to hear. "Somebody," he continued, "that will carry on the mighty tradition of Le Brux.
I read everywhere mysterious cyphers and hieroglyphics; every changing season offers to me a new palimpsest. I do not quite like to play here; I dare not be simple; I'm altogether too good to last long.
The exact images may not be recorded, but the effect produced by their passing will remain and become part of the palimpsest of life and character.
For him, of course, the economic problem was the first, and he spoke of it as the director of a huge trust might have spoken. But, as he passed on to talk of what he thought would result from the Communist method of tackling that problem, and spoke of the eventual disappearance of political parties, I felt I was trying to read a kind of palimpsest of the Economist and
The first part of it the great bulk of it was parchment, and yellow with age. I scanned a leaf particularly and saw that it was a palimpsest. Under the old dim writing of the Yankee historian appeared traces of a penmanship which was older and dimmer still Latin words and sentences: fragments from old monkish legends, evidently.
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