These marks are his signature, his physiologicalautograph, so to speak, and thisautograph can not be counterfeited, nor can he disguise it or hide it away, nor can it become illegible by the wear and mutations of time.

But there it is; quite in your way: a murderer'sautograph."

I laid my hand carelessly on the documents, and coldly and slowly glancing at them, I prepared to break the seals; my eye was arrested and my hand too; I saw what excited me, as if I had found a vivid picture where I expected only to discover a blank page: on one cover was an English postmark; on the other, a lady's clear, fineautograph; the last I opened first:--

As we were passing through a gallery on our way out, a well-dressed lady, of quiet and composed manners, came up, and proffering a slip of paper and a pen, begged that I would oblige her with anautograph, I complied, and we parted.

The letter was anautograph one of a few lines only, and dated from a village in the North of France--

Cecily's tears had been dropping on theautograph quilt square she was faithfully embroidering.

But there was one thing I couldn't understand -- nobody had asked for anautograph. I spoke to Clarence about it.

By this token you will know that the fairy tale I have been telling you is true, and to-morrow, if you will, you shall see yourautograph petticoat."

In Miss Jemima's eyes anautograph letter of her sister, Miss Pinkerton, was an object of as deep veneration as would have been a letter from a sovereign.

27 to 5010, Folio, Gothic edit., Red and Black character, Catch-word and No Cypher; wherein consult, also, marginal notes in theautograph of Stuffundpuff, with the Sub-Commentaries of Gruntundguzzell.

Crowds followed the cab, cheering it lustily; charming girls scaled it to get hisautograph; interviews appeared in the better class of papers, and society invited him to dinner and added, "Do come in the kennel."

Why, if Adam was to show himself to every new comer that wants to call and gaze at him and strike him for hisautograph, he would never have time to do anything else but just that.