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I forget just when it was that a rumor began to run around the room and electrify the atmosphere that a great naval engagement had taken place in the North Sea; but it was just after coffee was served that a boy from the office of Le Figaro entered with a proof-sheet for Monsieur Reinach to correct he contributes a daily column signed "Polybe."
Butefish declared editorially. Fresh air, pure water, and a moral atmosphere wherein it differed, he hinted, from its neighbor. There Vice rampant and innocent Youth met on every corner, while the curse of the Demon Rum was destroying its manhood. Mr. Butefish laid down the proof-sheet, sighed deeply, and quite unconsciously moistened his lips.
"I like a little; all the rest Is somewhere; and our Lord knows best How the whole robe hath grace for them Who only touch the garment's hem." At the bottom, in small capitals, was the signature, BEL BREE. "I don't understand," said Bel, bewildered. "What is it? Who did it?" "It is a proof," said Mrs. Scherman. "A proof-sheet. And here is another kind of proof that came with it.
Then he caught at a proof-sheet, and catched up a laundress's bill instead; made a dart at Bloomfield's Poems, and threw them in agony aside. I could not bring him to one direct reply; he could not maintain his jumping mind in a right line for the tithe of a moment by Clifford's Inn clock.
No man was more ready to make an apology when he had censured unjustly, than Johnson. When a proof-sheet of one of his works was brought to him, he found fault with the mode in which a part of it was arranged, refused to read it, and in a passion desired that the compositor might be sent to him. The compositor was Mr.
The Vicomte folded the proof-sheet carefully, handed it back to his companion, and said: "Then I understand that there will be no more of these very clever articles?" Bruno nodded his head. "I ask no questions," continued the other. "It is better so. I shall stay where I am for a few days, unless it grows too hot unless I think it expedient to vanish." "You have courage?"
To say sooth, if Dryden had left nothing behind him but the "Annus Mirabilis," he might have served as a type of the kind of poet America would have produced by the biggest-river-and-tallest-mountain recipe, longitude and latitude in plenty, with marks of culture scattered here and there like the carets on a proof-sheet. It is now time to say something of Dryden as a dramatist.
Clement's church again in the afternoon, and then returned and drank tea and coffee in Mrs. Williams's room; Mrs. Desmoulins doing the honours of the tea-table. I observed that he would not even look at a proof-sheet of his Life of Waller on Good-Friday. On Saturday, April 14, I drank tea with him. He praised the late Mr. Duncombe, of Canterbury, as a pleasing man.
The fifth line of the seventh verse originally read: "Or is civilization a failure?" On the margin of the proof-sheet he substituted the ringing line: "We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor," an immense improvement the verse reading: "Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed unto me, And he rose with a sigh, And said, 'Can this be?
Since I began my hermit's life here, I have been printing; and so long as I remain here, I shall keep on printing. In all probability, I shall die with a proof-sheet in my hand." "This," said Flemming, closing the book, "is no caricature by a writer of comedy, but a portrait by a man's own hand.
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