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The manuscript bore evidence of having been written in haste, for it was smeared and blotted in places, as though the writer, impatient with his surroundings, had wrestled with himself even while he penned the story of his marred and broken life. In some places the letters were clear and shapely enough, as though in keeping with his orderly arrangement of incidents and thoughts; but elsewhere it was interlined and corrected, and in parts obliterated, and its singular changes of style and calligraphy seemed to depict the writer's changing mood.
The opening pages were clearly written with clean up and down strokes and graceful curves; but in parts the manuscript was painfully difficult to decipher.