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That was the way of women when the man was late at the tryst. Then she dried her eyes and hummed a song, and, finally, taking a stump of pencil from her pocket, she began to scribble on the smooth red stone all part of the old play, the boulder knew. The first woman whom he remembered had drawn a figure meant for a portrait of her lover, with a sharpened flake of flint.
Unfortunately, I could not do so while we were together; I had not the power of expressing myself, but now I can find the words and you must, I fear, put up with my boring you with this scribble. My dearest, my only one yes, that you are, although it seems to me that you were not quite so certain of it as you ought to have been. I beseech you to believe that it is true.
She stepped back as though the sound of her own name startled her. "I love you. Women were made for love you above all women. You think I can only scribble poetry you are wrong! I mean to Barbara, my Barbara!" "You insult me, Mr. Fellowes." He caught her in his arms as she turned away from him. "Insult! Nonsense! Love insults no woman. You are mine mine!
We arranged it all at that wonderful exhibition of the New School in Green Street." Joan writhed a little at her recollection of the pictures of the rotundists and of the fatuous aphorisms to which she had given utterance. "I come to Midhurst accordingly, and what happens? You scribble me out a curt little letter. I am not to come to Rackham Park. I am not to try to see you.
Meanwhile, poor Betty Flanders's letter, having caught the second post, lay on the hall table poor Betty Flanders writing her son's name, Jacob Alan Flanders, Esq., as mothers do, and the ink pale, profuse, suggesting how mothers down at Scarborough scribble over the fire with their feet on the fender, when tea's cleared away, and can never, never say, whatever it may be probably this Don't go with bad women, do be a good boy; wear your thick shirts; and come back, come back, come back to me.
"Ah, my daughter, romance is, no doubt, a very fine thing, but it will soon bring you to starvation if you have nothing else to depend upon. Those poetic gentlemen love to scribble about ideals and such like rubbish, yet they themselves are always looking out for the trees on which money grows.
It is all very well to buy mechanical poetry and historical novels when our purses have a plethora; but now, my dear fellow, depend upon it, the game is up. We have no scholars now, no literary recluses, no men who ever appear to think. 'Scribble, scribble, scribble' as the Duke of Cumberland said to Gibbon, should be the motto of the mighty 'nineteenth century."
Cliff that he was not sure but what the parsons were quite correct, and although everybody was sorry to lose two members of the party, it could not be helped, and all who had letters to send to New York went to work to scribble them as fast as they could. Mrs.
After he sat down, ghastly pale, almost painfully panting after this tremendous effort, Mr. Gladstone tarried a little to recover himself to say a few words to Mr. John Morley to scribble a note. At last he rose, and then came the moment for which those silent Irish Benches had been waiting.
Nearly 200 years ago, a tattered flag, its broad stripes and bright stars still gleaming through the smoke of a fierce battle, moved Francis Scott Key to scribble a few words on the back of an envelope, the words that became our National Anthem.
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