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"I will give you a thousand," answered she, and she kissed and blessed me while tears ran down her cheeks; she then took some paper, and imitating the hand-writing, wrote as follows: "I must submit to your wishes, Donna Emilia; and while your sister blesses Don Florez, must yield to the severity of your disposition.
Augustus's will was then brought in, and read by a freedman; none of the witnesses to it being admitted, but such as were of the senatorian order, the rest owning their hand-writing without doors. The will began thus: "Since my ill-fortune has deprived me of my two sons, Caius and Lucius, let Tiberius Caesar be heir to two-thirds of my estate."
On the first page, in the hand-writing of that beloved mother, was registered the day of her marriage, and underneath the births of her several children, with a short and thanksgiving prayer affixed to each; a little lower down came a mournful register, the dates and manner of her sons' deaths; but the Christian spirit that had taught her words and prayers of gratitude, had been with her in the time of trouble; the passages were penned in true humility and humble-mindedness, though the blisterings of many tears remained upon the paper.
Soon he began to "cut left and right," as he termed it, and it was not remarkable that, in his cutting operations, his employer occasionally suffered. The upshot was, after holding his situation a year, that several false entries, in his hand-writing, were discovered in the books of Mr. Jasper.
The latter specimen, of his workmanship was adorned with a little scarecrow figure, intended to represent a housebreaking chimney-sweeper of the time, described in Sheppard's own hand-writing, as 'Jack Hall a-hanging. We must not omit to mention that a family group from the pencil of little Winifred, representing Mr. and Mrs.
Reed sent us, when we applied for some account of his client's past movements?" Miss Agnes and Elinor were both anxious to see it. "Here it is short you see in Clapp's hand-writing, but signed by himself. There is nothing in it that may not possibly be true; but I fancy that we shall be able to pick some holes in it, by-and-bye."
"Are you sure this is all, Jane?" I asked. "Quite sure, sir," said Jane, smiling, and then with a curtsey she took her leave. The envelope was addressed in a bold hand-writing to Justin M. Blake, Esq., Gower Street, London, W. "Surely I know the writing," I mused, and then began to look at the postmarks as if a letter were something of very uncommon occurrence.
"Toddrington" scratched out; "Red Lion Square, London," written in another hand below. "Now I have found him! And surely I know that hand!" said Lord Colambre to himself, looking more closely at the direction. The original direction was certainly in a hand-writing well known to him it was Lady Dashfort's.
A prudent young man wants to know the character of a girl before he marries her, for it is neither money nor beauty which can ensure happiness in married life." "What do you mean by character?" asked Christine; "is it a beautiful hand-writing?" "No, my dear. I mean the qualities of the mind and the heart.
He felt that their eyes were upon him as he took the letter up and he also felt that in Alice Galleon's gaze there was a wise and tender understanding of the things that he must be feeling. The roughness of the envelope, the rudeness of the hand-writing, a stain in one corner that might be beer, the stamp set crookedly these things seemed to him like so many voices that called him back.
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