An instance lately occurred of a work so divided (a prayer-book), where the first part was printed withlong s’s, and the last part with round, independent of other deviations;
The Bible itself was quite unknown ground until I was ten and stumbled upon the Apocrypha in an old edition of the Bible printed withlong s’s and beautiful early type.
He liked me to come into his dressing-room to talk to him while he lathered his face, and I remembered the lie I told him when he asked me if I had used the top of his silver shaving-pot to knock in a nail, and the day when he asked me to read him Burke’s speeches aloud in an edition printed withlong s’s.
