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But I was disappointed in both regards. With the exception of some minute pencil-marks scattered here and there along the text indications, doubtless, of favorite passages I perceived nothing in the volume to account for the extreme earnestness with which he had presented it. Whither wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no farther.
The scowling, slatey river was filled with ice-floes and chunks of floating, water-drenched snow that broke up into bobbing sheets of slush. The sky was solid cold gray, with no arch and no hint of the lost sun. Crows winging above them stood out against the sky like pencil-marks on clean paper.
This modern-looking hand, in which the pencil-marks appear, we venture to say may be that of a writer who lived long before the date of the volume on which his traces have been discovered, In support of this supposition, we might produce hundreds of instances within our reach.
But the rapid changes had baffled him, and the pencil-marks were gray compared with the whiteness of the clouds and the brightness of the moon, and the slate, though dark, was a mockery of the deep, deep depths of the night-sky.
We know some writers, who, when correcting their own proofs, always go over them with pencil first, and on a second reading make the corrections, often with material changes, in ink over the pencil-marks.
She thought of the morning the Dutch children first came in leather shoes, an occasion recalled by the pencil-marks behind the chart, where she had stood her punishment for too much smiling. The stove-poker brought back the terrible moment she had dared to put her tongue against it in the icy school-room, and had had to sit with the iron cleaving to her until the teacher warmed some water.
You have only to put faint pencil-marks against the tenderest passages in your favourite new poet, and lend the volume to Her, and She has only to leave here and there the dropped violet of a timid confirmatory initial, for you to know your fate. And what a touchstone books thus become! Indeed they simplify love-making, from every point of view.
It would be easier to make out anything at all 'strange and uncommon' in pen and ink than in pencil-marks which had a trick of 'rubbing. Leaning lightly against the counter Maryllia wrote in a clear bold round hand: "Miss CICELY BOURNE, "Come to me at once. Shall want you all summer. Have wired Gigue. Start to-morrow. She pushed this over to Mrs.
Then putting a small piece of paper in the hand of Donna Florinda, he turned his own swarthy palm, in which a small silver coin glittered, to the moon, and vanished. By the aid of the same light the governess succeeded in tracing pencil-marks, in a hand that had been well known to her younger days. "Save thyself, Florinda There is not an instant to lose.
Do you see this passage with pencil-marks against it, and all the words underscored? "Ah me! the laurel wreath that Murder rears, Blood-nursed, and watered by the widow's tears, Seems not so foul, so tainted, and so dread, As waves the nightshade round the sceptic head.
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