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All I envied him was his moustache for Evan. Will you believe that the ridiculous boy has shaved! 'Then there is Melville, my dear diplomatist; and here is another instance of our Harrington luck. He has the gout in his right hand; he can only just hold knife and fork, and is interdicted Port-wine and penmanship. So here is Evan fixed at Beckley Court as long as Melville stays.
Brooke, and has been very kind to me. Trusting penmanship and paper will be excused, 'I remain, &c. &c. 'G. H. W. Gill. "On the reverse was the following attestation, which threw more light on the circumstances:
Then I hid the book away under the garret eaves, and refused to bring it to light again. I was not allowed to resume my studies in penmanship for some months, in consequence. But when I did learn to write, Emilie was my teacher, and she made me take great pains with my p's and q's. It is always a mistake to cram a juvenile mind.
But this dealt with the students only undergraduate, graduate, special. No Cope there. Remained the loose-leaf faculty-index, in which the members of the professorial body told something about themselves in a great variety of handwriting: among other things, their full names and addresses, and their natures in so far as penmanship might reveal it. Ca; Ce; Cof; Collard, Th.
However, I was delighted to see his dexterity in penmanship, which was undoubtedly very great, and I expressed my satisfaction to Viar, who soon left us to ourselves. We proceeded into the garden. "Will you kindly inform me," I said, "how you can be so foolish as to call yourself the Comte d'Aranda?"
Penmanship is a test for the hand, but History is a study touching the memory more than the doing faculty. School music, you see at once, is a doing study. Not only that, it is full of life, attractive, appealing to the thoughts in many ways, and yet it is a hearty study by that I mean a study for the heart.
His pointed and lucid style gave to his printed performances a semblance of cogency which they did not really possess; and his letters even his shortest notes were as exquisite in wording as in penmanship. As he grew older, he became increasingly sensible of the charms of "Auld Lang Syne," and he delighted to renew his acquaintance with the scenes and associations of his youth.
He remained at the bottom of the stairs, watching until her slight figure had disappeared round the bend of the stairway. "Your Great-aunt Rachel is dead, Roger." Lady Gertrude made this announcement the following morning at breakfast. In her hand she held the letter which contained the news written in an old-fashioned, sloping style of penmanship on thin, heavily black-bordered note-paper.
Only here was a crumpled rose leaf in the pillow on which I laid my swelling head: penmanship was vexation to me, and spelling puzzled me, so that I wrote with sorrow and many blots and scratchings out. Almost I put aside the idea of becoming an author.
He being so well known, it is likely that some will write down his doings, and, not knowing them save by hearsay, will write them wrongly and in different ways, whereof will come confusion, and at last none will be believed. Wherefore, as he will not set them down himself, it is best that I do so. Not that I would have anyone think that the penmanship is mine.
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