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Updated: June 10, 2025
He looked at it for a moment, hesitated, touched the inner corner of his right eye with the pulp of his middle finger, looked at the face of the watch, said it was getting into the forenoon, then opened the watch and handed me the loose outside case without a word. The watch-paper had been pink once, and had a faint tinge still, as if all its tender life had not yet quite faded out.
The old gentleman took the watch-paper carefully from her, replaced it, turned away and walked out, holding the watch in his hand. I saw him pass the window a moment after with that foolish white hat on his head; he couldn't have been thinking what he was about when he put it on. So the schoolmistress and I were left alone.
'Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus Jam cari capitis which means, 'How can I make up my mind to see you go up stairs?" Belle-bouche cast a tender glance at Jacques. Sir Asinus continued: "Yes, yes, I see you pity him. But you should pity me." "Why?" "Your watch-paper you remember; the one which you cut for me?" "Yes."
The old gentleman took the watch-paper carefully from her, replaced it, turned away and walked out, holding the watch in his hand. I saw him pass the window a moment after with that foolish white hat on his head; he couldn't have been thinking what he was about when he put it on. So the schoolmistress and I were left alone.
The presses were hard at work for many days, and could not print proofs fast enough. "For several weeks," says Mr. Sala, "Hogarth received money at the rate of twelve pounds a day for prints of his etching." It was reduced in size and printed as a watch-paper watch-papers were vastly fashionable in those days and in that Liliputian form it sold also in large quantities.
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