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Eddy writing after a good long twenty years of pen-practice. Compare also with the alleged Poems already quoted. The prominent characteristic of the Poems is affectation, artificiality; their makeup is a complacent and pretentious outpour of false figures and fine writing, in the sophomoric style.
Defect of knowledge, lack of pen-practice, confusion and contradictoriness of aims, instability of conviction, these faults he recognised in himself at every moment of inward scrutiny. On his table this evening lay a library volume which he had of late been reading, a book which had sprung into enormous popularity.
The letter although the unformed chirography betrayed the writer's inexperience in pen-practice was correctly spelled and easy in style, crowded with loving messages to "dear papa and mamma;" relating anecdotes of school and home life, and while expressive of her longings for her parents' return, professing willingness to stay where she was "until mamma should be well enough to come back."
He could not sign it, being gouty and half forgetful of pen-practice, but he responded to the question as bold as a lion: "John Thomas Joliet, baron de Rouvière," throwing to the lawyer a fine bunch of papers bearing witness to the validity of the title; after which he added, no less proudly, "wine-merchant, wholesale and retail, at the sign of the Golden Chickens, Noisy."
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