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Pompey receiving the submission, sent letters to Metellus, commanding him to leave off the war; and others in like manner to the cities, in which he charged them not to yield any obedience to the commands of Metellus.
"Huh!" said Tommy again, as he went out. "Huh!" "Mail!" suddenly called a voice, and the postman entered the store. "Where's Mrs. Golden?" he asked, as he saw Bunny and Sue, whom he knew. "She's got a headache, and we're tending store," Sue answered proudly. "Oh, all right. Here's a couple of letters for her. She's been asking me for letters all week, and I didn't have any for her.
She would not believe it; the letters had miscarried, or something else had interfered to prevent his writing. She resolved that, come what would, she would go to him, and, throwing herself at his feet, demand his protection.
"'If this yere industrious hold-up keeps up his lick, says Texas Thompson about the third time the stage gets rustled, `an' heads off a few more letters of mine, all I has to say is my wife back in Laredo ain't goin' to onderstand it none. She ain't lottin' much on me nohow, an' if the correspondence between us gets much more fitful, she's goin' p'intin' out for a divorce.
Make my compliments to Lord Huntingdon, whom I love and honor extremely, as I dare say you do; I will write to him soon, though I believe he has hardly time to read a letter; and my letters to those I love are, as you know by experience, not very short ones: this is one proof of it, and this would have been longer, if the paper had been so. Good night then, my dear child.
When I am at school, and getting letters all the time I feel as if I were living two beautiful lives all at once, the life of a 'cooperative child' and the life of Eleanor Hamlin, schoolgirl, both together. Letters make the people you love seem very near to you, don't you think they do?
He makes use of a very discreet and edifying method: to all of the citizens whose honor is in danger, he sends one or more anonymous letters telling them of the "extent of their misfortune."
"Because I cannot bear that he should be deceived, and should feed on false hopes. Do you think it right, Richard?" "I will write to him, if you like," said Richard; "but I think he must pretty well know the truth from all the letters to Harry and to himself." "It would be so much better for him to settle his mind at once," said Margaret. "Perhaps he would not think so "
To be sure he might have put it in a bank, and, if he were fortunate, get it back again when he wanted it. But Jurgis was now a homeless man, wandering over a continent; and what did he know about banking and drafts and letters of credit? If he carried the money about with him, he would surely be robbed in the end; and so what was there for him to do but enjoy it while he could?
That lady had come to the conclusion that Laurie was unhappy in his religion certainly references to it had dropped out of his letters and that Mr. Rymer must set it right. "The Vicar must dine here at least twice while Laurie is here," she observed at breakfast one morning. "He has a great influence with young men."
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