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Understanding "short-hand," I would go to my cell in the evening and jot down what I had learned during the day. I had no fears of any one reading my notes, as I was the only short-hand writer about the institution. Day after day I kept this up, until I had material sufficient of this nature to fill a book of more than two thousand pages.
The narrative, however, so far from becoming clearer, grew gradually more confused and intricate; and as frequent references were made by the lady to some previous statement, Calvert was more than once rebuked for forgetfulness and inattention, where in reality nothing less than short-hand could have borne him through. "'Was it in '93 I said that Sir Harry left me at Tuam?
'I shall be all right when I know you are better. Then as Sibby brought out the tea, and Stella the toast she had insisted on making, he began to look at his short-hand notes. 'Never mind those. You are to rest, you know. Stella, little one, run to the office, and if Mr. Froggatt is not busy, get him to come and have some tea. This was always a mission to Stella's taste; and Mr.
But, no one except the interpreters, who were taking their testimony down in short-hand, to be translated into Altrurian and read at the subsequent hearing, could understand what they were saying, and so nobody was disturbed by the murmurs.
But I kept it though God knows that afterwards I wished I had not done so and slipped it into my pocket-book where I kept three or four others, intending, when I had an opportunity, to give it to some clerk, learned in short-hand, to read for me. And so I went to bed.
Or Belial: Belial would be the most delightful. He is the fine genius of the Inferno, I imagine, the Beranger of Pandemonium." "I really cannot listen to such nonsense one moment longer. What would you have if Belial were here?" "Let us see. Now, you shall act the spirit, and I, Vivian Grey. I wish we had a short-hand writer here to take down the Incantation Scene. We would send it to Arnold.
And at the same time, smiling, he said, "I seem to speak with the precision of a short-hand writer; however, it is as I say." He allowed it. "But I say it for this reason, wishing you to be of the same opinion as myself.
If I understood short-hand, and had been aware of your anxiety on the subject, I might have taken notes of our conversation for your benefit." "Did you talk of me?" "I believe your name was mentioned." "Dith!" in a whisper, and raising herself on her elbow, "did Sir Victor say any thing about about you know what"
Her will, or faith, must have failed her at the crucial instant, and the lower law of matter had its horrible revenge. There is the whole story, gentlemen, very sad and, as you think, very presumptuous and wicked, but certainly not criminal or in any way connected with me. In the short-hand of the police-courts, you had better call it suicide.
Frisbie went on to say that nothing but the terrors of death induced him to become a party to that base conspiracy against the honor of a noble lady, and that he had suffered almost as much remorse for his crimes against Lady Vincent as for his murder of Ailsie Dunbar. All this Mr. Godfree took down in short-hand from the lips of the conscience-stricken man.
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