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He began now to resort to his poetical vein as a source of profit, scribbling street-ballads, which he privately sold for five shillings each at a shop which dealt in such small wares of literature.
DEAR FATHER: Your picture of the black days when no letter comes from me sets me off scribbling to you at this late hour. It seems brutal to say it, but taking potshots at the enemy when they present themselves is rather fun.
There he lay, singing his old sea songs; watching the poultry from the window with a child's delight; scribbling on the slate little messages to his wife, who lay bed-ridden in another room; glad to have Psalms read aloud to him, if they were of a pious strain checking, with an 'I don't think we need read that, my dear, any that were gloomy or bloody.
It was perfectly true that he had scribbled a certain amount in years gone by, when he was at the 'Varsity: but not seriously. . . . An essay or two which he had been told showed distinct ability: a short story, of possible merit but questionable morality, which had been accepted on the spot by a not too particular periodical and had never been paid for that was the extent of his scribbling.
A few weeks subsequently, his master discharged him, under the probably well-justified accusation that he was neglecting his work, scribbling verses all day long, and running about to distribute his prospectuses. This discharge came in the autumn of 1818, and put Clare to the severest distress.
But she did not; she controlled her feelings and faced me firmly and pluckily. "At nine no, at ten to-morrow, then," she said. "I shall expect your final answer then." "Very well." "You will come? Of course; I am forgetting. You said you would." "We will be here at ten. Here is my address." I gave her my card, scribbling the street and number of Bancroft's in pencil in the corner.
Make him a doctor and you will find him scribbling columns for the press on hygiene in the house and the benefits of breathing through the nose. Send him into the army and he will fill his leisure by writing tales of tiger-shoots and essays on the art of pig-sticking. So with the artist.
'Meantime I am here scribbling on in my hermitage, never seeing anybody but for some special reason, always bearing relation to the service of mankind. Making all due allowance for the deceptive views of the outer world which haunt every 'hermitage, it remains true that Bentham's fame was emerging from obscurity.
"But all boys are naughty boys," said Mrs. Parry, "and that wasn't enough reason for sending you from home, and shutting the door against you." "No," said Gethin, "but I did more than that; I could not do a worse thing than I did to displease the old man. I was fond of scribbling my name everywhere.
But at two o'clock he was back in the corner of the big room. Soon the work-girls went trooping past, making remarks. It was the commoner girls who worked upstairs at the heavy tasks of truss-making and the finishing of artificial limbs. He waited for Mr. Pappleworth, not knowing what to do, sitting scribbling on the yellow order-paper. Mr. Pappleworth came at twenty minutes to three.
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