Here again the
register might, by offering written evidence of the marriage, prove to me, at any rate, that this doubt had no foundation in truth.
"Wait a moment," said Villefort, turning over the leaves of a
register; "I have it -- a sailor, who was about to marry a young Catalan girl.
"Who do you think those professors are, whose names we saw on the
register?"
Aramis mechanically turned over the leaves of the
register, continuing to read the names, but without appearing to take any interest in the names he read.
"Jacques," returned Defarge, drawing himself up, "if madame my wife undertook to keep the
register in her memory alone, she would not lose a word of it--not a syllable of it.
The result was that in the next generation the family brain was
registered at only 58 degrees, and not till the lapse of five generations was the lost ground recovered, the full 60 degrees attained, and the Ascent from the Isosceles finally achieved.
A great work, which deserved to remain unique, the last originality of architecture, the signature of a giant artist at the bottom of the colossal
register of stone which was closed forever.
Think of our Whitcombs, and our Ainsworths and our Williamses writing themselves down in dilapidated French in foreign hotel
registers! We laugh at Englishmen, when we are at home, for sticking so sturdily to their national ways and customs, but we look back upon it from abroad very forgivingly.
He said I might do so if I pleased, but that if I did not, there were ways enough to secure my right, and immediately to appropriate the profits to my use: and as there were ships in the river of Lisbon just ready to go away to Brazil, he made me enter my name in a public
register, with his affidavit, affirming, upon oath, that I was alive, and that I was the same person who took up the land for the planting the said plantation at first.
Jerry, who heard,
registered, and recognized many words that were as truly tools of thought to him as they were to humans, but who, by inarticulateness of birth and breed, could not utter these many words, nevertheless in his mental processes, used images just as articulate men use words in their own mental processes.
We therefore, who are the
registers of that lottery, shall imitate those sagacious persons who deal in that which is drawn at Guildhall, and who never trouble the public with the many blanks they dispose of; but when a great prize happens to be drawn, the newspapers are presently filled with it, and the world is sure to be informed at whose office it was sold: indeed, commonly two or three different offices lay claim to the honour of having disposed of it; by which, I suppose, the adventurers are given to understand that certain brokers are in the secrets of Fortune, and indeed of her cabinet council.
On the ninth of January, now four days ago, I received by the evening delivery a
registered envelope, addressed in the hand of my colleague and old school companion, Henry Jekyll.