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Didot only ask thirty-six sous for their Cicero! These nail-heads of yours will only fetch the price of old metal fivepence a pound." "You call M. Gille's italics, running-hand and round-hand, 'nail-heads, do you? M. Gille, that used to be printer to the Emperor! And type that costs six francs a pound! masterpieces of engraving, bought only five years ago.
He held out the papers he had been consulting while he was questioning me; and judge of my confusion when I saw on the cover the word "Memoirs," written in my best round-hand. I, myself, had provided material to Justice important details which the suddenness of our catastrophe had prevented me from saving from the police search of our office.
'Now you've done it, said Tony, breaking all rules by speaking considerably above a whisper. Welch went to the door, and listened. The House was still. They settled down once more to work. Charteris lit the spirit-lamp, and began to prepare the meal. The others toiled painfully on at their round-hand. They finished almost simultaneously.
Recognizing this truth, I lost no time, but, within five minutes of my arrival at the surgery, was seated at the writing-table with my copy before me busily converting the sprawling, inexpressive characters into good, legible round-hand.
But Miss Fosbrook said that would be very uncivil; and Susan, groaning, stretched every finger till the lines were finished, and began again, in her scraggy round-hand getting safely through the "should," and also through "like to come very much;" but when Miss Fosbrook looked up next, she saw that the rest of the note consisted of Mamma is at Grandmamma's, No. 12, St., Grovensor Place.
The first was a very large Bible bound in massive leather-covered boards, a present from Master Claude Gray to his friend, and brother in Christ, Philip Carré, and so stated in a very fine round-hand on the front page.
The first time I signed my exercise I wrote "Pisistratus Caxton" in my best round-hand. "And dey call your baba a scholar!" said the Doctor, contemptuously. "Your name, sir, is Greek; and, as Greek, you vill be dood enough to write it, vith vat you call an e and an o, P,e,i,s,i,s,t,r,a,t,o,s.
The upper one ran: 'David Suveret Grieve, Sept. 15, 1863; the lower, 'Louise Stephanie Grieve, Sept. 15, 1863. They were written in bold round-hand, and could be read at a considerable distance. During the nine months they had been there, many a rustic passer-by had been stopped by them, especially by the oddity of the name Suveret, which tormented the Derbyshire mouth.
That such should be the first letter that Nuttie ever addressed to Mr. Dutton, since the round-hand one in 'which Miss Ursula wished Mr. Duton to have the onner of a tee with me on my birthday, and I am your affected little Nuttie'! She hoped to explain and lament the next morning, after church.
A panel, and this time a different panel from the first, slid back, and again the secretary appeared. Monsieur Beaucourt said a brief word or two, and a few moments later a tabulated list, written in round-hand, lay before him. "Here are all the accidents which have occurred in Paris during the last ninety hours."
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