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You can address Poste restante, unless you write to me here first, from where all my letters will be forwarded to me. Genoa, Spezzia, Nice, will detain me till I hear from you for certain when and where our meeting is to be. In the "Carlsruhe Gazette" it was announced that the Musical Festival had been postponed till October; will our meeting have to be postponed too?
And I drew from my pocket a wallet containing the two hundred and fifty thousand francs in bank notes. "Very good!" said Jacques Bricheteau. "Now let us go to the Hotel de la Poste; no doubt you know who awaits you there." "No, indeed I do not," I replied. "You must have remarked the name and title under which that money was paid to you?"
No details were obtainable concerning Priam Farll, whose address was Poste Restante, St. Martin's-le-Grand.
If only Ellaline were safely married! But she can't be yet, for days and days, I'm afraid. She was to have written or telegraphed me at Gloucester, if there were any chance of her soldier lover getting away sooner than last expected; but I had no word from her at all, at the Poste Restante there. All that sounds bad enough for me, doesn't it? But there's worse to come.
How do you find it here, M. Meeus, when you are by yourself?" "Oh, one lives," replied the Chef de Poste, looking at the cigarette between his fingers with a dreamy expression, and speaking as though he were addressing it. "One lives." That, thought Adams, must be the worst part about it. But he did not speak the words.
Campden, Minks was saying when they reached the door of La Poste. He stood aside to let the others pass before him. He held the door open politely. 'No wonder you chose them as the symbol for thought and sympathy in your story. And they climbed the narrow, creaking stairs and entered the little hall where the entire population of the Pension des Glycines awaited them with impatience.
In Yakoma the people are paid chiefly by beads and salt and it is interesting to watch the long string of workers filing to the office of the Chef du Poste on Saturday, each one carrying a plate, a tin can or some other receptacle in which to receive his wages. On October 22nd we decide to pack up and move on.
He turned to Berselius, who was sleeping. The delirium had passed, and he was breathing evenly and well. There was hope for him yet hope for his body if not for his mind. The first thing to be done was to bury Meeus. And now came the question, How would the soldiers take the death of the Chef de Poste? They knew nothing of it yet.
I know you are wondering what your lady friend in Monte Carlo will think. Well, I can tell you this. She already knows that you have escaped, and she had been told to write to you in secret at the Poste Restante at Brussels." Hugh started. "Who has told her? Surely she knows nothing of the affair at the Villa Amette?" "She will not be told that.
We threaded our way among the stationary vessels, and at length came before the town. A friend had commended me to the Hotel de la Poste, and I ordered the yemshick to drive there. With an eye to his pocket the fellow carried me to an establishment of the same name on the other side of the Oka.
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