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If the candidate for that fearful calling had seen the process of selection and elimination, he would have felt still more desperately. A paper of twenty pages would come in, with an underscored request to please read through, carefully.
Lord Byron, in a letter to Murray, underscored his admiration of the author, and subsequently said to an American, "His Crayon, I know it by heart; at least, there is not a passage that I cannot refer to immediately." And afterwards he wrote to Moore, "His writings are my delight." There seemed to be, as some one wrote, "a kind of conspiracy to hoist him over the heads of his contemporaries."
The boyishness was evident in every line, in the underscored words, the pitiful attempt at dignity and the silly veiled threats. He was so insistent upon the statement that he was not a beggar. And yet he could write a begging letter like this. He did not ask for charity, not he, he demanded it. Demanded it he, the son of a thief, demanded, from those whom his father had robbed, his "rights."
Do you see this passage with pencil-marks against it, and all the words underscored? "Ah me! the laurel wreath that Murder rears, Blood-nursed, and watered by the widow's tears, Seems not so foul, so tainted, and so dread, As waves the nightshade round the sceptic head.
It was "Madoc," and three lines, heavily underscored, stood boldly out upon the page: "Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith." Over and over she read the lines, and, returning the book to its place, pondered, as she allowed her glance to rove again over the little room whose every detail bespoke intense masculinity.
He showed them a single blond hair which had been in one of the bread seals. "How I was murdered." Those were the words that Commissioner von Mayringen read aloud after he had hastily turned the first few pages of the notebook, and had come to a place where the writing was heavily underscored.
It was directed to Mary J. Dillon, and bore the New York post-mark. It read: "Uncle Sam is in need of men, and those who lose with Venus may win with Mars. Enclosed papers you will know best what to do with. Be a mother to the children you have three of them. He underscored the three he was a mystery to me. Poor "mother!" She declared that no doubt "poor James's head was affected."
Moses languidly took up his Bible. It was a veritable study in black and white, many passages being underscored, and many remaining as unsoiled as though seldom read. Indeed, the Gospels seldom had been read, while the imprecatory Psalms and the latter part of the Epistle to the Romans were greasy and stained with oft perusal.
The immediate need for this kind of cooperation is underscored by the strain in our international balance of payments. Our surplus from foreign business transactions has in recent years fallen substantially short of the expenditures we make abroad to maintain our military establishments overseas, to finance private investment, and to provide assistance to the less developed nations.
Of you she does not speak often, but, when she does, it is ever in the kindest and most solicitous manner; calling you 'Miles, 'poor Miles, or 'dear Miles, with all that sisterly frankness and affection you have known in her from childhood." The old gentleman had underscored the "sisterly" himself. To my delight and surprise, there was a long, very long, letter from Lucy, too!
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