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But, Lord! to see how my wife will not be thought to need telling by me or Ashwell, and yet will plead that she has learnt but a month, which causes many short fallings out between us. So to my office, whither one-eyed Cooper came to see me, and I made him to show me the use of platts, and to understand the lines, and how to find how lands bear, &c., to my great content. Then came Mr.
We mounted the narrow stair to the Marconi deck. At the table sat Platts' assistant with the Marconi attachment upon his head an apparatus which always set me thinking of the electric chair. "Have you got it?" demanded my companion as we entered the room. "It's still coming through," replied the other without moving, "but in the same jerky fashion.
"It doesn't come from Messina," replied the man at the table, beginning to write rapidly. Platts stepped forward and bent over the message which the other was writing. "Here it is!" he cried excitedly; "we're getting it." Stepping in turn to the table, I leant over between the two and read these words as the operator wrote them down: Dr. Petrie my shadow....
I up and saw Sir W. Pen gone also after them, and so I finding it a leisure day fell to making cleane my closett in my office, which I did to my content and set up my Platts again, being much taken also with Griffin's mayde, that did cleane it, being a pretty mayde. I left her at it, and toward Westminster myself with my wife by coach and meeting took up Mr.
Every time I get it, it seems to have gone back to the beginning just Dr. Petrie Dr. Petrie." He began to listen again for the elusive message. I turned to Platts. "Where is it being sent from?" I asked. Platts shook his head. "That's the mystery," he declared.
That there was some form of intercourse between the English and Italian stage is shown by the discovery of one of the Italian Scenarios, or "Platts," as we know them, at Dulwich College, which discovery Steevens describes as "a mysterious fragment of ancient stage direction, and of a species of dramatic entertainment which no memorial is preserved in any annals of the English stage."
Petrie," he said, "and I was even less anxious to arouse your neighbour; but somebody seems to be trying to get a message, presumably urgent, through to you." "To me!" I cried. "I cannot make it out," admitted Platts, running his fingers through dishevelled hair, "but I thought it better to arouse you. Will you come up?"
This coffin and the ghostly one she took to be one and the same. Dr Levitt mentioned instances of superstition, which could scarcely have been believed by him, if related by another. "Do you know the Platts?" he inquired of Hope. "Have you seen the poor woman that lies ill there with her child?" "Yes: what a state of destitution they are in!"
In a few minutes the table was cleared, and Margaret ready to proceed with Dr Levitt to the Platts' Cottage. As soon as Margaret saw what was the real state of affairs in the cottage, she sent away Dr Levitt, who could be of no use till some degree of decency was instituted in the miserable abode. What to set about first was Margaret's difficulty.
'His mother is a superior young woman, with a very good education, and the Platts are highly respected about here. The children ran back to their playfellows considerably sobered by their experience, and Teddy very soon made his way home, and told his mother all that had befallen him. 'It's dreadful difficult to remember in time, mother.
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