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Beyond doubt, her fingers had guided the pencil for it was pencil-writing and guided it so deftly, as to impress me with surprise and admiration. Astonished was I, that she the child of a rude squatter should be able to set down her ideas in so fair a hand thoughts thrilling, though simply expressed. Ah! sweet simple words!
The exclamation had reference to a small dark object which lay a few yards from the spot on which he sat. He ran and picked it up. It was Tom Brixton's cap with his name rudely written on the lining. Beside it lay a piece of bark on which was pencil-writing.
Having turned it round as old Trumbull and Nanty Ewart had formerly done, and, like them, having examined the address with much minuteness, he asked whether he had observed these words, pointing to a pencil-writing upon the under side of the letter.
This pencil-writing is manifestly the product of a period within twenty-five or thirty years of the date of the printing of the book, and yet it presents apparent variations in style which are especially noteworthy in connection with our present subject.
Very dangerous men. It occurred to him that these three lines of pencil-writing had cost him a thousand dollars and at the same instant he flushed with shame at the idea of measuring the money value of anything in such a quest as this.
A pencil-writing, on a crushed and torn piece of paper, blotted with wet. Folded roughly like a letter, and directed to me at my guardian's. "You know the hand," he said, "and if you are firm enough to read it to me, do! But be particular to a word." It had been written in portions, at different times. I read what follows: "I came to the cottage with two objects.
"And I have never left off thinking about you all the time, and have longed so for you. Look here!" She took a lamp off the chimney-piece, and held up her ball programme before his eyes. The blank places were filled up with pencil-writing, which looked as if it might be lines of poetry: which in truth it was Spanish improvisations breathing burning love and passionate longing.
Both these words are manifestly not examples of an ancient cursive hand, like those of which fac-similes are given above, but of rapid pencil-writing of the present century. They fairly represent the character of all the fac-similes of words in pencil, with two exceptions, which Mr. Hamilton and Dr. Ingleby have published.
Finally I persuaded her to write a few lines; but she broke her pencil six times before she finished it. I said to her, "You are a naughty girl." "No," she replied, "pencil is very weak." I think her objection to pencil-writing is readily accounted for by the fact that she has been asked to write so many specimens for friends and strangers. You know how the children at the Institution detest it.
He then very methodically examined it all over with his double lens. "It is paper of native Indian manufacture," he remarked. "It has at some time been pinned to a board. The diagram upon it appears to be a plan of part of a large building with numerous halls, corridors, and passages. At one point is a small cross done in red ink, and above it is '3.37 from left, in faded pencil-writing.
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