By a lift of the eyebrow , a twist of the lip , a gesture , a word , he painted some whole scene or character so that we saw it as it was . Finally , he lent Robert his life-book . Robert sat up all night reading it and came to the breakfast table in great excitement . `` Mary , this is a wonderful book . If I could take it and garb it properly -- work it up into a systematic whole and string it on the thread of Uncle Jesse 's romance of lost Margaret , it would be the novel of the year . Do you suppose he would let me do it ? '' `` Let you ! I think he would be delighted , '' I answered . And he was . He was as excited as a schoolboy over it . At last his cherished dream was to be realized and his life-book given to the world . `` We 'll collaborate , '' said Robert . `` You will give the soul and I the body . Oh , we 'll write a famous book between us , Uncle Jesse . And we 'll get right to work . '' Uncle Jesse was a happy man that summer . He looked upon the little back room we gave up to Robert for a study as a sacred shrine . Robert talked everything over with Uncle Jesse but would not let him see the manuscript . `` You must wait till it is published , '' he said . `` Then you 'll get it all at once in its best shape . ''
Robert delved XXXXX the treasures of the life-book and used them freely .
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