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Next door to the jeweller's was a studio supporting the arts, with local pottery shaped as etiolated blue cats and yellow puppies; and there one could get picture postcards of the London favourites in revue, and some water-colour paintings of the local coast which an advertisement affirmed were real. That was not all. Opposite was the one bookshop of the town.
Rumania is one of the few countries in Europe where the peasants still dress like the pictures on the postcards.
Brother and sister cast a swift glance down the road, but there was no male figure in sight which could by any possibility belong to a visitor from the South. "You go in, and I'll mount guard at the door. Buy some postcards to send home!" suggested Ron; and, nothing loath, Margot entered the little shop, glancing round with a curious air.
Heinrich's letters and postcards had got in among them, and so had a letter of Teddy's.... The letters reinforced the photographs in their reminder how kind and pleasant a race mankind can be.
Gregg had left the room, that some sort of fancy dress for the girl would be likely to please the Lord-Lieutenant, and would be a compromise which both ladies could accept without loss of dignity. Mary Ellen is to be rigged out as a traditional Irish colleen, the sort you see on the picture postcards they sell to tourists in Dublin. Mrs. Gregg is delighted, and Mrs.
By means of reply postcards you can make sure of an answer from a correspondent without putting her to any expense or to any trouble worth mentioning. The back of the postcard is for the message; nothing must be put on the front except the address.
In every room one finds portraits of the King of Montenegro, the queen, the princes, the King of Italy, his queen, the Tzar of Russia, the grand dukes and duchesses, the King of Serbia and his princes, and to cap all a sort of comprehensive tableau of all the male crowned heads of Europe including Turkey balanced by another commemorating all the queens of Europe excluding Turkey the spaces left between these august people are filled with family portraits, framed samplers, picture postcards or a German print showing the seven ages of man over a sort of step-ladder.
For months after the settlers came west they ordered many commodities by mail, and their friends sent them everything from postcards to homemade cookies and jelly, so as mail carriers we became pack mules. But we went on carrying mail. It is easier to get into things than to get out.
Behind them, with machine guns trained, was drawn up a battalion of French infantry. The occasion was celebrated in Saigon as a public holiday, hundreds of Frenchmen, accompanied by their wives and children, driving out to see the sight. The next day picture postcards of the execution were hawked about the streets.
From whomever the letter might come, or in whatever vein it had been written, he admitted to himself that he would feel savage with it, and would have dismissed it as "hot air" if it were sympathetic, or as "hard-hearted" if it were anything else. He wrote home on the now famous postcards that inform the addressee that, on such and such a date, the sender was alive and well.
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