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Updated: June 24, 2025
You shall learn length, breadth, and thickness; hard and soft; pieces and yards; dozens and the fractions thereof; order and confusion, cleanliness and dirt, to love the one and hate the other; materials, colors, and shades of color; patience, manners, decency in general; system and method, and the relation these sustain to independence; in short, that there is a vast deal more out of books than in books; and, finally, that the man who knows only what is in books is generally a lump of conceit, and of about as much weight in the scales of actual life as the ashes of the Alexandrian library, or the worms in any parchments that may have survived that conflagration.
World led his charming comrade into the fourth hall, over whose entrance, in plain words, this inscription appeared: ALL THAT WAS EVER WRITTEN CONCERNING JESUS CHRIST. They first chose to enter a sub-department where ancient scrolls, parchments, and papyri could be seen in tiresome variety. Miss Church-Member scanned most carefully some of the manuscripts which had never been published.
"You have ready by you the merely nominal sum you'll have to pay for the admittance, of course?" "Yes," said Netty. "I'll bring it out." She fetched the cash, wrapped in paper, and handed it to him, and when he had counted it the steward took from his breast pocket the precious parchments and gave one to her to be signed. "Uncle's hand is a little paralyzed," she said.
So there was nothing for it but presently to give up that futile tugging and jerking, and to compromise by crumpling these parchments. "This is my answer," said Jurgen heroically, and with some admiration of himself, but still a little dashed by the uncalled-for toughness of the parchments.
"Dehra has told you?" I asked. He nodded. "But I felt sure of you so sure, indeed, I have all these ready for you." He picked up a roll of parchments. I took them mechanically. There, were the seals, the flowing ribbons, the heavy signature of the King. The sheets rustled and twisted in my fingers, curling back and forth like things alive.
But they well-armed and keeping always in company did no more than harm Vokes in the leg by a bullet, and so to my fort and mighty downcast. Began to make myself a chair with arms. This day also wrote me out divers parchments thus: JASPER VOKES June 3. The weather hot and I out after my bloodthirsty enemies. Came on the French rogue Durand and him sleeping.
The charters and muniments were the main object of pillage and destruction, for it was believed that claims which could not be authenticated could not be enforced. Often the castle itself was burnt with the parchments it contained, and some of the owners perished. The disorders raged in many parts of France. A district east and south-east of the centre suffered most.
Unfortunately, however, rebel pikes and matchlocks, during the past forty years, had made too many rents in those sacred parchments to leave much hope of their ever being pieced handsomely together again. As to the historical theory of imperial enfeoffment, the States thought it more delicate to glide smoothly and silently over the whole matter.
After examining the contents of the box thoroughly, and returning the parchments to their original place, he said in a mortified tone: "The papers are not here. How they have been abstracted I cannot imagine, as I always keep the key in a private drawer of my cabinet, which is known only to myself." "Did you place them there yourself?" demanded the old woman, in a hurried whisper.
'A hath bolted the door; thus his secretaries shall not come to him. See now. She slid back a board in the wall, and Udal could see into what appeared to be a cupboard filled with a litter of papers and of parchments. Udal's heart began to beat so that he noted it there; his eyes searched hers with a glittering excitement nevertheless a half fear of awakening the envoy kept him from speaking.
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