And the penalty is bound to be terrible, since it has been enacted by the learned; expulsion, no doubt, besides a fine--an enormous fine.

They are getting ready over there to fleece me.
That book of reference they are consulting is of course the catalogue of the sale where this treasure was purchased.

I shall have to replace the Early Text! O Uncle Mouillard!" I sat there, abandoned to my sad reflections, when one of the attendants, whom I had not seen approaching, touched me on the shoulder.
"The keeper wishes to speak to you." I rose up and went.

The terrible reader had gone back to his seat.
"It was you, sir, I believe, who blotted the folio just now ?" "It was, sir." "You did not do so on purpose ?" "Most certainly not, sir! I am indeed sorry for he accident." "You ought to be.

The volume is almost unique; and the blot, too, for that matter.