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It was many weeks before she came home again to Horn o' the Moon; and then Grandfather Sinclair had broken his leg, so that interest in her miracle became temporarily inactive. Two years had gone when there came to her a little package, through the Tiverton mail. It was tied with the greatest caution, and directed in a straggling hand.
So John Kenyon departed, and was soon on his way to the North, with a list of china manufactories in his note-book. That afternoon Wentworth got the letters off by the American mail, and he felt that they were doing business as rapidly as could be expected.
Every morning Uncle Terry, often accompanied by Telly in a calico dress and sunbonnet, rowed out to pull his lobster traps, and after dinner harnessed and drove to the head of the island to meet the mail boat, then at eventide, after lighting his pipe and the lighthouse lamp at about the same time, generally strolled over to Bascom's to have a chat, while Telly made a call on the "Widder Leach," a misanthropic but pious protegée of hers, and Aunt Lissy read the "Boston Journal."
Not only is the postmaster the sole witness of all that transpires behind the secretive curtain, but he is privileged to turn over the exalted office to a temporary substitute and hale the lady of his heart forward, if he so desires. There was no lack of mail.
"At least that is what he asked for in his letter to me. I don't know what he will request in the one I wager you get by the morning mail." "Why, I had been writing him all that he needed of that, and we are going to be so busy gardening, how can we help him live it also? Peter does require so much affectionate attention." I positively wailed this to Sam, in the most ungenerous spirit.
I think that in most of these tropical colonies the ladies exist only on the hope of going "home!" It is a dreary, aimless life for them scarcely life, only existence. The greatest sign of vitality in Singapore Europeans that I can see is the furious hurry in writing for the mail.
He passed into the inner office, where his desk stood, piled with the last mail, and sent his stenographer out to lunch, for his own appetite had deserted him. He had thrown the paper down, with no thought of reading it, and paused to hang up his coat and hat.
"He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce." The Vulva. The female generative organs consist of three groups the external, the intermediate, and the internal. The vulva, or external generative organs, comprises all those organs which are external to the body.
It came in our mail." Pearl took it, wonderingly. It bore the official seal of the Department of Education. Only once had she received such a letter, and that was when she received permission to attend the Normal.
From two thousand to twenty-five hundred pounds of mail, comprising over one hundred thousand letters, are received here every day. Yes, madam, I said every day. About half of these letters are orders. Last year the banking department counted one hundred and thirty millions of dollars. One hundred and thirty millions!"
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