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"Whatever are you doing?" and she sprang up in some alarm. "What's the matter? Did I upset my tea?" asked the inventor innocently. "No; but you are soiling a clean tablecloth. Pencil-marks are so hard to get out. Take a piece of paper, please." "Oh, is that all?" rejoined Mr. Swift with a smile.
They accomplished nothing. The same men and women are now grumbling and regretting the flesh-pots of the old Government, or whispering in impotent discontent "Viva la Repubblica!" and they and their descendants will go on whispering something to each other to the end of time, while mightier hands than theirs are tearing down empires and building up irresistible coalitions, and drawing red pencil-marks through the geography of Europe.
She was reclining on the sofa, reading a worn copy of Law's Serious Call which had belonged to the late Viscount, and bore many of his pencil-marks. This in itself was to Sara a sign of some unusual melancholy in her friend. "Why," she said, kissing her soft, pale cheek, "why didn't you let me know that you had returned? I thought you were still in Paris."
And if these pencil-marks, that underlie the simulated ink corrections, were made after the spring of 1849 ! Here is a dilemma, either horn of which has a very ugly look. But out of this trial we hope, nay, we confidently believe, that Mr. Collier will come unscathed.
"What does she mean?" demanded Allen. "I see! It is a story of the children's! 'Marco's Felucca. I looked at it while I was copying, and thought how pretty it was. And now I remember there were some pencil-marks!" "Well, it will please the children," graciously said Allen. "I am not sorry; I did not wish to make my debut in a second-rate serial like that, and now I am quit of it.
Underneath certain letters in the words of this marked passage he had noticed dents in the paper, as though by the pressure of a pencil point. Now that he stood by the light, he made sure of the dents, and he saw also by the roughness of the paper about them, that the pencil-marks had been carefully erased.
Here's one now; look at those pencil-marks all round the margin!" "Some of the marks were there before," said the judge, as he read the title. "Then there are more fools than one in the world. Here is where he has turned down a leaf. Now just read that bosh and nonsense!"
He found, also, that what seems to be ink is not ink, but "a paint, removable, with the exception of a slight stain, by mere water," which "paint, formed perhaps of sepia," would enable an impostor, it need hardly be observed, to simulate ink faded by time; and in several cases in which "the ink word, in a quaint, antique-looking writing, and the pencil word, in a modern-looking hand, occupy the same ground, and are one over the other," the pencil-marks being obscured or obliterated, Mr.
Jones had ever read the volume himself; and could not help remembering, that he had to get on a chair when he reached it down from its dusty shelf; that certainly looked suspicious. The best reading was on the fly leaves; and, on turning them over, I lighted upon some half effaced pencil-marks to the following effect: "Jonathan Jones, from his particular friend Daniel Dods, 1798."
"I killed her with the slate, Miss Rutherford; this slate, look." She pointed to a slate without a frame which lay on the floor. There were sums worked on the uppermost side, and the pencil-marks were half obliterated. For a moment the schoolmistress's amazement held her motionless, but fresh and louder moans recalled her to the immediate necessities of the case.
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