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"It is to be regretted, very much regretted," replied Rodin; "but it was necessary to follow out the system already adopted." "Is that meant for a reproach?" said Father d'Aigrigny, who began to think that Rodin was something more than a mere writing-machine. "I could not permit myself to blame your reverence," said Rodin, cringing almost to the ground.
And everything in the room was red. Floor and walls and ceiling, the couch he had lain on and the furniture itself. There was a monstrous bulk of a man sitting comfortably in a chair on the other side of the room, pecking at a device resembling a writing-machine. Thorn sat still for an instant, gaining strength. Then he flung himself desperately across the room, his fingers curved into talons.
It was in 1866 that he began to experiment with a writing-machine, and his first one, which was patented two years later, was as big as a sewing-machine. Still, it embodied the essential principles of the typewriter as it is made to-day, and after spending five years in perfecting it, Sholes made a contract with E. Remington & Son to manufacture it.
"Forgive my indiscreet and obstinate curiosity, sir, but I wish to know " "How you were morally revealed to me is it not so? Oh, my dear young lady! nothing is more simple. I will explain it to you in two words. The Abbe d'Aigrigny saw in me nothing but a writing-machine, an obtuse, mute, blind instrument " "I thought M. d'Aigrigny had more penetration."
Father d'Aigrigny shrugged his shoulders, and reproached himself for having asked advice of this writing-machine, that served him for a secretary, and to whom he only ascribed three qualities memory, discretion, and exactness.
Before this matter was discussed I may have seen you in the village, but I never had known you even by sight, and from what that good lady said of you I supposed that you were decidedly middle-aged in feeling, if not in years; that you were extremely grave and studious, and wished, when engaged upon literary composition, to be entirely oblivious of your surroundings; and that you desired an amanuensis who should be simply a writing-machine, who would in no way annoy you by intruding upon you any evidence that she possessed a personality.
Father d'Aigrigny shrugged his shoulders, and reproached himself for having asked advice of this writing-machine, that served him for a secretary, and to whom he only ascribed three qualities memory, discretion, and exactness.
I wish any one who writes for me to work in my way; and if such a person has been accustomed to work in other people's ways, annoyance and interruption must surely result, and that I wish very much to avoid. A secretary should be a mere writing-machine, and I do not believe an elderly person could be that.
"Forgive my indiscreet and obstinate curiosity, sir, but I wish to know " "How you were morally revealed to me is it not so? Oh, my dear young lady! nothing is more simple. I will explain it to you in two words. The Abbe d'Aigrigny saw in me nothing but a writing-machine, an obtuse, mute, blind instrument " "I thought M. d'Aigrigny had more penetration."
"It is to be regretted, very much regretted," replied Rodin; "but it was necessary to follow out the system already adopted." "Is that meant for a reproach?" said Father d'Aigrigny, who began to think that Rodin was something more than a mere writing-machine. "I could not permit myself to blame your reverence," said Rodin, cringing almost to the ground.
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