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Updated: May 2, 2025
Her time was spent in writing endless, scrawly letters to Evelyn, which covered days; in sitting moodily at the top of the fir tree which she climbed in defiance of her length of petticoat glaring at sunsets, and brooding on dead delights; in taking long, solitary, evening walks, by choice on the heel of a thunderstorm, when the red earth was riddled by creeklets of running water; till Mother, haunted by a lively fear of encounters with "swags" or Chinamen, put her foot down and forbade them.
Roderick explained that is, told the prearranged story. The man pointed to a grimy register on the office desk, and Roderick set down the fishing bag and wrote in a cramped, scrawly hand, "Kate Peters, Milton, Ky." The man looked at it through his screen of hair and beard, said, "Come on, ma'am."
In the usual manner her arm to all appearance the passive instrument of some unseen, powerful agency jerked and glided over the paper, writing in curious, scrawly characters, never in her own neat little old-fashioned hand, messages of which, on coming out from the "trance" state, she would have-no memory; of many of which at any time she could have had no comprehension.
She could not have found a moment in which to be homesick; twice a week she wrote back to Sweetheart and Little-Dad long scrawly letters that would have disgraced her in the eyes of Miss Gray of the English department, but expressed such utter happiness and contentment that Mrs. Travis, with a little regret, dismissed the fear that Jerry would be lonely away from her and Sunnyside.
"The next day." "And found ?" "An ordinary sealed envelope, addressed in pinpricks connected by pencil lines. The address was scrawly, but quite plain." "Well, what did it contain?" "A commitment blank to an insane asylum."
The home-coming loomed brightly before them now, for with such a current the Susquehanna would soon be reached. On the left hand side of the creek stretched a sloping hill, wooded for a distance of two or three hundred yards as it receded from the water, and then merging into open fields. On the right was a rugged cliff full of limestone rocks and scrawly pine trees.
The envelope was stamped in that ephemeral taste which configured the stationery of a few years ago, with the lines of alligator leather, and it exhaled a perfume so characteristic that it seemed to breathe Statira visibly before him. He knew this far better than the poor, scrawly, uncultivated handwriting which he had seen so little.
He took a pen brusquely and dipped it with a vague notion of going on with the writing of his essay but his pen remained poised over the sheet. It hung there for some time before it came down and formed long scrawly letters. Still-faced and his lips set hard, Razumov began to write. When he wrote a large hand his neat writing lost its character altogether became unsteady, almost childish.
"No; I have kept the drawings," he said, with a laugh, and rose to get them from a drawer in the writing-desk behind him. "Here is all that remains of the pictures, you see," he added, pushing a number of loose sheets under the doctor's eyes; "nothing but a few scrawly lines. That's all I found the next morning. I had really drawn no heads at all nothing but those lines and blots and wriggles.
I'll bet she had someone write it for her, too. It looks all big and scrawly like a man. Anyway, Robin, you ought to keep one of the bills as a souvenir." The day after Christmas, and for many days thereafter, Robin counted over the five precious bank-notes. She knew with her eyes shut each line and shading of their fascinating decoration.
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