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Nelly withdrew her arms. George Sarratt surveyed his sister-in-law with curiosity. 'Work? he repeated, with his pleasant, rather puzzled smile. 'What are you doing now, Bridget? said Nelly, softly, stroking the sleeve of her sister's jacket, but really conscious only of the man beside her. 'Reading some proof-sheets for a friend, was the rather short reply, as Bridget released herself.
I very much enjoyed my long conversation with you; and to-day we return home, and I to my horrid dull work of correcting proof-sheets. Believe me, my dear Wallace, yours very sincerely, P.S. I had arranged to go and see your collection on Saturday evening, but my head suddenly failed after luncheon, and I was forced to lie down all the rest of the day. Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E. February 23, 1867.
It is a fine subject the Duke of Guise at Naples and I think not very much known, though the story of Masaniello is. I have a letter from Dr. Lardner proposing to me to publish the history in June. But I dare not undertake it in so short a space, proof-sheets and all considered; it must be October no help for it. Worked after dinner as usual. May 3.
It is a very interesting subject, but I shall not be able to go on with it for the next five or six months, as I am fully employed in correcting dull proof-sheets; when I return to the work I shall find it much better done by you than I could have succeeded in doing. With many thanks for your very interesting note, believe me, dear Wallace, yours very sincerely,
I send you a copy of the last letter which she had from him ; she never heard that he had any intention of going into holy orders. From this late interview with his sister, I think much more favourably of him, as I hope you will. I am eager to see more of your Prefaces to the Poets; I solace myself with the few proof-sheets which I have.
The two actors, probably, I think, never read through the proof-sheets, and took the word of the man whom they employed to edit their materials, for gospel. The editing of the Folio is so exquisitely careless that twelve printer's errors in a quarto of 1622, of Richard III, appear in the Folio of 1623.
The miscreants did not even trouble themselves to secure any appearance of order or continuity in these mangled skeletons of articles. Their murderous work done, they sent the pages to the press, and to make the mischief beyond remedy, they committed all the original manuscripts and proof-sheets to the flames.
As to my first volume of sermons, if any one would see his thoughts laid out in a winding-sheet, let them be laid before him in printer's proofs; that which had been to me alive and glowing, and had had at least the life of earnest utterance, now, through this weary looking over of proof-sheets, seemed dead and shrouded for the grave.
I don't take that sort of interest in my husband's proof-sheets. I consider his writings most objectionable!" I had an odd colloquy the next morning with Miss Ambient, whom I found strolling in the garden before breakfast. The whole place looked as fresh and trim, amid the twitter of the birds, as if, an hour before, the housemaids had been turned into it with their dust- pans and feather-brushes.
The leading publishers were themselves scholars filled with enthusiasm for humanism. Cultured and well-to-do people acted as proof-readers to printers; such as Peter Gilles, the friend of Erasmus and More, the town clerk of Antwerp, who corrected proof-sheets for Dirck Maertensz. The great printing-offices were, in a local sense, too, the foci of intellectual intercourse.
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