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In every port there were rich and influential men eager to see him, there was business to talk over, there were important letters to read: an immense correspondence, enclosed in silk envelopes a correspondence which had nothing to do with the infidels of colonial post-offices, but came into his hands by devious, yet safe, ways.
Discovering a wastepaper basket full of envelopes with brightly coloured marks on them, he regained his interest a little. He knew those marks for stamps and they had pictures on them which attracted him very much. So he made a bee-line for the basket and proceeded to pick out what he liked best. "Have you forgotten what I told you," he heard his father shout to him.
ETHEL B. WATSON, Nurse in Waiting. "The idea! Of course I won't! I wouldn't think of such a thing!" Hazel exclaimed. "Just a second," she said to the footman. Over on the parlor mantel lay some sheets of paper and envelopes. She borrowed a pencil from Barrow and scribbled a brief refusal. The footman departed with her answer. Hazel turned to find Jack staring his puzzlement. "What did he want?"
In the forenoon of the day, the various members of the party amused themselves by playing little "April Fool" jokes on Barnum, and after dinner he took his revenge upon them. Securing a supply of telegraph blanks and envelopes, he set to work preparing messages full of the most sensational and startling intelligence, for most of the people in the party.
Our object was simply to obtain the addresses upon the envelopes, if possible, and then to search out the parties to whom they had been consigned. In this instance our manner of proceeding was quite simple, but it required that it should be managed with great care and without exciting the suspicion of any one.
The servant at once brought him his lamp and handed him a package of cards in envelopes, cards of condolence as for a death and a large card, saying: "That gentleman is here!" "Molina!" said Vaudrey, becoming very pale. "Show him in!" The fat Salomon entered puffing and smiling, and spread himself out on an armchair as he said to the former minister: "Well, how goes it? Not too badly crushed, eh?
These letters will frighten the receivers. I cannot help it. 'I will bring letter paper and envelopes in the afternoon, said Lord Romfrey. 'Don't use black wax, my dear. 'I can find no other: I do not like to trouble Miss Denham. Letter paper has to be sealed. These letters must go by the afternoon post: I do not like to rob the poor anxious people of a little hope while he lives.
He crossed to it and placed the papers on the coals, where they flared a moment, casting wavering shadows about the silent room, and died to black wisps. Again and again he made the short journey from the bed to the grate; each time she verified the contents of the envelopes before delivering them to his hand. Last of all the two yellow cheques crisped to ashes.
You turn your pockets out, and feel the lining of your coat and vest inch by inch, and examine your letter papers everything you happen to have had in your pocket that day over and over again, and by and by you peer in envelopes and unfold papers that you didn't have in your pocket at all, but might have had.
He was searching for something rummaging through the drawers of the table, taking out papers and envelopes, and tearing them open with a furious desperate energy, pausing every now and again to look hurriedly over his shoulder, as though he expected to see some apparition start up from the shadowy corners.
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