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One of these a large omnibus was my host's. I entered it, followed by an orthodox lady's maid, who was laden with delicate parcels evidently from New York, and we were off. The country, for the time was January, was covered with deep snow, which clung to the boughs of pine trees and glittered on cottage roofs.
Hadn't she warned folks time and again to send all her stuff by express instead of by parcels post, which would sure get her gunned some day by the stage driver who got nothing extra for hauling such matter? She had so!
In separate parcels of twenty-five grammes each." "Is that all you know about Weiss?" "It is all that I actually know; but it is not all that I suspect on very substantial grounds. By the way, what did you think of the coachman?" "I don't know that I thought very much about him. Why?" "You never suspected that he and Weiss were one and the same person?" "No. How could they be?
On the top of this, which nearly came to her chin, she eagerly spread out heaps of little paper parcels she took from one of the drawers. "Have you any earrings just like those you are wearing?" I asked her. If she had, I would buy them if I could for my cousin Viola, I thought. Viola was excessively fair, and those blue stones would be enchanting against her blonde hair.
Presents, presents, lots of presents, stowed away in odd corners..." "We'll each take a certain number and hide them in our own pet corners when no one else is in the garden. We'll make the parcels up in green paper, so as to be less easy to find..." "Every one must be told to bring them back to the lawn for a grand public opening, so that the disappointed ones may join in the fun..."
My drowsy chaperone was awakened too suddenly, and was therefore very cross and ill-humored for some time after. It was with difficulty we persuaded her to follow us along the track, at the end of which loomed up a dismal wooden building whither we directed our vagrant steps, not knowing what better to do. Here we deposited our sundry parcels and awaited some crisis, we hardly knew what.
He looked around him, and just at that moment saw Maurice Trevor crossing a field in a leisurely fashion. Maurice drew up when he saw Thomas. "Hallo," he said, "what are you doing here, Thomas?" "I came for some parcels from town, sir. I wonder, sir, if you would either hold the mare for a minute or do a commission for Miss Keys?" "I will do the commission; what is it?"
He brushed by her and went on out to the rig, returning almost instantly with an arm full of parcels. "We could all do with a cup of tea. Just have a look at the stove. It won't take two shakes to light a fire." "It seems hardly worth while; it's so late." "Oh, light the fire, my girl, and don't talk about it," he said good-humoredly.
Under a haphazard system of individual parcels, despatched from all over the British Isles, it has been practically impossible to keep track of all the changes.
Lloyd, Smith and Company must endorse the draft before it can be cashed. The draft, after payment, is returned to you, and it becomes the best form of receipt. Were you ever at the Dead Letter Office in Washington? If you have never paid such a visit, you can form no conception of the tons, the hundreds of thousands of letters and parcels that are lost every year in the mails.
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