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In describing it to the officials of the Patent Office, he was obliged to call it "an improvement in telegraphy," when, in truth, it was nothing of the kind. It was as different from the telegraph as the eloquence of a great orator is from the sign-language of a deaf-mute.
Hearing persons who understand the sign-language sometimes find it exceedingly convenient as a means of communicating when they wish to be private, I remember an amusing incident occurring at a festival which I attended while teaching in the Illinois institution. Another teacher and myself sat apart, surrounded by entire strangers.
Eleven years later the first cable established an instantaneous sign-language between Americans and Europeans; and in 1876 there came the perfect distance-talking of the telephone. No invention has been more timely than the telephone. It arrived at the exact period when it was needed for the organization of great cities and the unification of nations.
Their angry protests seemed to express something more abiding than mere displeasure at the intrusion of a stranger. They seemed to feel a strong instinctive antagonism toward this beautiful woman. Ralph persisted with his signs. The woman read them easily and replied in her own sign-language, which was wonderful to behold. Ralph and Nick read it as though they were listening to a familiar tongue.
Far down in the list of continents stands Africa. Egypt and Algeria have twelve thousand at the north; British South Africa has as many at the south; and in the vast stretches between there are barely a thousand more. Whoever pushes into Central Africa will still hear the beat of the wooden drum, which is the clattering sign-language of the natives.
That is one of the truest signs of love, but Zorzi had not learned much of love's sign-language yet, and did not understand. "What is it?" she asked almost tenderly. He turned his eyes from her and rested one hand against the trunk of the plane-tree. "I do not understand," he said slowly. "Why are you so sad? What is it that is always making you suffer?" "How could I tell you?"
There was nothing to be said to men who purred like cats, while sign-language in the light of the bull's-eye was rather difficult. Tom Spink groaned protest when I told Louis to take them below and give them blankets. I made the sleep-sign to them, and they nodded gratefully, hesitated, then pointed to their mouths and rubbed their stomachs. "Drowned men do not eat," I laughed to Tom Spink.
Excepting that sign-language which is profoundly interesting from an artistic and ethnological point of view why does not some scholar bring old lorio's "Mimica degli Antichi" up to date? few things are more worthy of investigation than the colour-sense of these people.
The feat seemed impossible, until the second morning after, when the scout pointed out to the colonel the pony-tracks up the mountainside. The Apache scouts kept track of the soldiers' movements, communicating with the main body with blanket-signals and smoke columns. The sign-language of the Indians of the South is an interesting field of study.
He shrugged his shoulders and then repeated my question to the Mahar spokesman. When the latter had explained in the strange sign-language that passes for speech between the Mahars and their fighting men the Sagoth turned again to me: "For a long time you had Tu-al-sa in your power," he explained. "You might easily have killed her or abandoned her in a strange world but you did neither.
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