It was not to be inferred that they were consumed in idleness: what then was the nature of his employment over which a veil of such impenetrable secrecy was cast?
Will you wonder that the design of entering this recess was insensibly formed?
Possibly it was locked, but its accessibleness was likewise possible.

I meant not the commission of any crime.

My principal purpose was to procure the implements of writing, which were elsewhere not to be found.

I should neither unseal papers nor open drawers.

I would merely take a survey of the volumes and attend to the objects that spontaneously presented themselves to my view.