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He was at the breakfast table opposite Kenneth, and held up a big, glaring post-card which was in his mail. "What is it now?" asked the boy, rousing himself from a fit of abstraction. "An announcement offering himself for renomination at the primaries. It's like a circus advertisement.
The two brothers were absorbed more in the building itself than what was going on within; even to what their two young people were doing. Chester, surely was prompted by a spirit of sacriledge when he took from an inner pocket a picture post-card he had bought in Ireland.
"You never seen the like the way it all happened, Lew. So quick! The day I took the train was like I was walkin' for good out of a dream. Not so much as a post-card from there since " "Uh uh now cry-baby!" "I ain't exactly sorry, Lew; only God knows, more'n once in those twelve weeks out of work I was for goin' back and patchin' it up with him.
The elevator man was looking at them reproachfully. Marcia edged toward the grated door. "I'll drop you a post-card," she said. Horace's eyes were quite wild. "Send me a post-card! I'll come up any time after January first. I'll be eighteen then." And as she stepped into the elevator he coughed enigmatically, yet with a vague challenge, at the calling, and walked quickly away. He was there again.
Curt post-cards came on these occasions, thus conceived: 'DEAR MOTHER, 'A son. Send Bloomah. Sometimes these messages were mournfully inverted: 'DEAR MOTHER, 'Poor little Rachie is gone. Send Bloomah to your heart-broken 'BECKY. Occasionally the post-card went the other way: 'DEAR BECKY, 'Send back Bloomah. 'Your loving mother.
They had a cheerful supper, and Ann French cut a pie, and said, as she passed him more than a quarter part of it, that she thought she should give up when she was baking that morning, and saw the look on his face as he handed her the post-card. "You're fit to be captain of a privateer," acknowledged Captain Asaph Ball, handsomely.
The Tertium Quid flew downhill on horseback, but it was to meet the Man's Wife; and when he flew uphill it was for the same end. The Man was in the Plains, earning money for his Wife to spend on dresses and four-hundred-rupee bracelets, and inexpensive luxuries of that kind. He worked very hard, and sent her a letter or a post-card daily.
Among his papers was an indecent post-card not connected, I think, with propaganda of any sort, as it portrayed a bright-coloured female of ripe figure and Teutonic aspect, wearing a pair of long stockings and high-heeled shoes, and bore the legend "Gruss von München."
She was proof against a single post-card, not against two. A new little brother is a valuable sentimental asset to a school-girl, and her school was then passing through an acute phase of baby-worship.
She would receive it the next morning when I was arriving in New York, and, as she did not know my name, she could not possibly return it. I felt I had earned that pleasure. This time, Miss Briggs was in charge of the post-card counter, and as now a post-card was the only thing I could afford to buy, at seeing her there I was doubly pleased. But she was not pleased to see me. Evidently Mr.
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