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Updated: June 7, 2025
"As good he as another," thought Friedrich Wilhelm: "What is the use of these solemn fellows, in their big perukes, with their crabbed X+Y's, and scientiflc Pedler's-French; doing nothing that I can see, except annually the Berlin Almanac, which they live upon? Let them live upon it, and be thankful; with Gundling for their head man." Has his Majesty no prize questions to propose, then?
I went next day, and after admiring her work, and being told how it was done, she showed me a monthly magazine with coloured plates of ladies' dresses, charades, and puzzles. At the end of a page I read what appeared to me to be simply an arithmetical question; but on turning the page I was surprised to see strange looking lines mixed with letters, chiefly X'es and Y's, and asked; "What is that?"
He fled from letters of introduction coming in the ordinary way, as from the plague. Neither prince nor noble could win his intimacy or tempt him out of the pale of his daily routine. We are most eager in the pursuit of what is forbidden. I became the more determined to make M -y's acquaintance, the more difficult it seemed.
B 's uncle, a facetious little man, who had served in the English navy, and was as big and as round as a hogshead; we were likewise favoured with the company of father K , a native of Ireland, who is vicaire or curate of the parish; and among the guests was Mons. L y's son, a pretty boy, about thirteen or fourteen years of age.
One or two things I don't understand: What's this opposite the Hon. X's name, 'Took the medicine nicely, and feels better? and here, just in the margin, after Y's, 'Must be labored with?" "I suppose our California slang borrows largely from the medical and spiritual profession," returned Thatcher. "But isn't it odd that a man should keep a conscientious record of his own villainy?"
I only reserved the sum of two dollars a month, to pay a little lad to chop wood for us. After a time, I began to think the Y -y's were gifted with secondsight; for I never received a money-letter, but the very next day I was sure to see some of the family. Such an application was like a gleam of light springing up in the darkness; it seemed to promise the dawning of a brighter day.
These facts are set forth in the clearest light in the above-mentioned work, in which I was carefully examining General A y's plans for the improvement of this famous canal, when I was most agreeably interrupted.
All the pride and selfishness of x, all the despair of y, were mirrored in the dancer's play of features. The spectators could not help pondering over the seeming law of injustice that rules the world. Why should x be everything in the equations and y nothing? Why should y's nonentity be used even to set off the all importance of x? But they found no answer.
They looked like pages torn out of a diary, and were covered with writing which struck Elsie with a sense of familiarity. This handwriting, firm, black, legible, was like her own. "How interesting!" she said to herself. "I have always flattered myself that mine was an uncommon hand. But somebody a woman evidently has stolen my e's and b's and g's and y's.
M. le Major," said the Q of the B-lg ns, archly, "vous n'aurez jamais votre brevet de Colonel." Her M y's joke will be better understood when I state that his Grace is the brother of a Minister. I am not at liberty to violate the sanctity of private life, by mentioning the names of the parties concerned in this little anecdote.
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