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beauty and distinction that you must see in the handwriting of some
highly cultivated people。 I wish you could see how prettily little
children spell in my hand。 They are wild flowers of humanity; and their
finger motions wild flowers of speech。
All this is my private science of palmistry; and when I tell your
fortune it is by no mysterious intuition or gipsy witchcraft; but by
natural; explicable recognition of the embossed character in your hand。
Not only is the hand as easy to recognize as the face; but it reveals
its secrets more openly and unconsciously。 People control their
countenances; but the hand is under no such restraint。 It relaxes and
bees listless when the spirit is low and dejected; the muscles
tighten when the mind is excited or the heart glad; and permanent
qualities stand written on it all the time。
FOOTNOTE:
'A' The excellent proof…reader has put a query to my use of the word
〃see。〃 If I had said 〃visit;〃 he would have asked no questions; yet what
does 〃visit〃 mean but 〃see〃 (_visitare_)? Later I will try to defend
myself for using as much of the English language as I have succeeded in
learning。
THE HAND OF THE RACE
III
THE HAND OF THE RACE
LOOK in your 〃Century Dictionary;〃 or if you are blind; ask your teacher
to do it for you; and learn how many idioms are made on the idea of
hand; an
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