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Updated: May 11, 2025
Yet was he now and then upon the threshold. With streaks of the quack and adventurer in him, he gave out deep notes. With an itch to use his pen as well as his tongue, he had none of the patience, the hankering after perfection of form, of the professional man of letters. His account of his Scanderoon exploit, a sea-log, a little written-up later, was perhaps not meant for publication.
I am not consoled by the false, written-up, Drury Lane aspects of that event, which is neither drama, nor melodrama, nor tragedy, but the exposure of arrogant folly.
She was therefore a very valuable find, well worth the time and trouble they were devoting to her. The last entry on the log-slate had been made at eight o'clock on the previous morning; and the log-book had been written-up as far as noon on the day preceding that.
The similarity of the unpleasant sensation of being written-up in a paper and being bitten-down by a turtle became plain for the first time by the explanation of Badger. About three days afterward, Porcupine came to me excited, and said that the time has now come, that he proposes to execute that thing we had planned out. Then I will do so, I said, and readily agreed to join him.
The preoccupations here behind the lines filled him with disgust, weariness, and a profound pity for these people in the rear a strange race to him, with the outcries of the papers, questions from such persons old buffoons, worn-out, damaged politicians! patriotic braggings, written-up strategies, anxieties about black bread, sugar cards, or the days when the confectioners were shut.
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