The owner reserved the private papers, including invoices, ciphering book, rules of civility, etc., but in 1849 sold these also to the same purchaser for twenty thousand dollars.

Isabel, in her extremity of indecision, remembered that some saint of the latter part of the last century, whose biography she had read in a Sunday-school library-book, was wont, when undecided in weighty matters, to write down all the reasons, pro and con, and cipher out a conclusion by striking a logical balance.

There sit the stupid audience, gaping and admiring leaps and attitudes, studying anatomy in the positions of Lemière, and applauding the entrechats of Röhnisch, prattling of "grace," "harmony," and "limbs"no one remarking meanwhile that he has before him in chronological ciphers the destiny of the German Fatherland.

He had not the knowledge by which a man might cipher out the intrigues of the hill-folk beyond the Frontier.

He tried to adjust his dull wits to the new position of affairs; tried to cipher the problem with this amazing new element introduced.