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This looks like a formidable indictment, and in the literal sense of the words it may be true. I have compared the first five pages of the two editions, and there are a good many changes in the use of capitals and italics. But except one obvious misprint of a single letter, "even" for "ever," there is nothing which does "grave wrong" to the sense, or affects it in any way.
He was a small, plumpish, round-faced man in his early forties, who spoke in perpetual italics. His eyebrows, arched over-generously by Nature, gave him a look of never-ending astonishment at the world and all its works. But his genial smile was kindness itself. Unaccustomed as Val was to sudden enthusiasms, he found himself liking René LeFleur almost before his hand gripped Val's.
I have been grieved to-day, deeply grieved, to see that you already begin to feel uplifted." Mr. Wiley dwelt in unctuous italics on his regret, and waved his head slowly in token of his mournfulness. Bessie turned scarlet and held her peace. "You must be very benevolent people here," said Mr. Fairfax sarcastically. "Is Mr.
This paper invited complaints under various set headings and concluded with these words: "Whether there is any other question that might be usefully considered in determining the causes that have retarded the expansion of traffic upon the Irish lines, and their full utilization for the development of the agricultural and industrial resources of the country." The italics are mine.
In the first case, this letter is only used at the beginning of words, and wherever it is met with in any other place in the words of the Vocabulary, it is used as in the second case: But never as in the third example; for this power, or sound, is every where expressed by the a and i before-mentioned, printed in Italics.
This commission is due as soon as the engagement is made." In the printed receipt which is handed the applicant there is a curt, business-like recapitulation of all the conditions, in which occurs the following memorandum: "I shall give you notice of vacancies as they occur which, in my judgment, seem suited to your wishes and qualifications." The italics are my own.
When Annesley had read this long letter with its many italics, she passed it to Knight who, in exchange, handed her a London newspaper with a page folded so as to give prominence to a certain column. It was an account of the burglary at Mrs. Ellsworth's house, which he had been reading.
I heard a whistle, which I cannot express in italics, and then, confidentially: "You don't say so! Bad break?" "Very," I responded firmly. "Any details of the disaster available? What?" "Not at present," I replied, for it would have been difficult to send them by telephone. I could hear poppa considering the matter at the other end.
American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 187. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 188. Author's italics. Monroe to Madison, Aug. 4, 1807. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. p. 186. That is, all vessels, including merchantmen. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. iii. pp. 183-185. Author's italics.
Milnwood's eyes hastily glanced through the paper to pick out the strongest expressions of censure with which it abounded, in gleaning which he was greatly aided by their being printed in italics. "I think it a bloody and execrable murder and parricide devised by hellish and implacable cruelty utterly abominable, and a scandal to the land."
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