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A year and a half later Kuzma Vassilyevitch received a letter in German from Emilie, alias Frederika Bengel, which he promptly had translated for him and showed us more than once in later days. It was full of mistakes in spelling and exclamation marks; the postmark on the envelope was Breslau.
Peter Ruff shook his head. "A philosopher," he answered, buttoning up his notes. Peter Ruff came down to his office with a single letter in his hand, bearing a French postmark. He returned his secretary's morning greeting a little absently, and seated himself at his desk. "Violet," he asked, "have you ever been to Paris?" She looked at him compassionately.
That postmark contained a date only one week old. Nan was the last child to whom Annie felt she could confide her guilty secret. "Oh, dear, dear," she murmured under her breath, "what a true saying it is, that 'the way of transgressors is hard. I am a mean, low sort, not a doubt of that. Why, if the Lorrimers and Thorntons really knew me as I am, they wouldn't speak to me.
When he looked, the bow was under water, the stern rising in the air, higher and higher, until a third of the after body was exposed; then it slid silently, but for the bursting of huge air bubbles, out of sight in the depths. About a year later, Lieutenant Denman received a letter with a Paris postmark, which he opened in the presence of his wife.
It was a Standard of February 4 two days ago and Arthur whistled again and turned pale as he saw a stamp and a postmark on the front page, and read a fragment of the address "...ford, Esquire, Grandcourt." "That settles it clean!" he muttered to himself. "I say! who'd have thought it!" Then he sat down and went over the incidents of the last twenty-four hours.
And then the kitchen was in an uproar as the precious missive was put into Polly's hand; and they all gathered around her, wondering and examining, till Ben thought he would go wild with the delay. "I wonder where it did come from," said Polly, in the greatest anxiety, examining again the address. "Where does the postmark say?" asked Mrs. Pepper, looking over her shoulder.
"Why, indeed?" I said. "He might throw 'C.M.'s' letter aside, but if there had been a previous letter warning him that danger threatened him from Italy, do you imagine he would have failed to open one with the Rome postmark on it?" "That does seem to knock the bottom out of my argument," said Quarles. "I am afraid the theory is too elaborate altogether," I went on. "Parrish was an eccentric.
It bore the postmark of San Francisco, where Pinkerton was already struggling to the neck in multifarious affairs: it renewed the offer of an allowance, which his improved estate permitted him to announce at the figure of two hundred francs a month; and in case I was in some immediate pinch, it enclosed an introductory draft for forty dollars.
The usual place-hunting letters from constituents, a petition from the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Hiram Center protesting against the sale of liquor at the Capitol, invitations to dine, a tempting mining prospectus, circulars without number, and at the bottom of the pile a square blue affair with the Washington postmark. I gave it my immediate attention.
He wrote constantly, and enclosed the letters to the old notary at the University, who, with Teutonic regularity, stamped and posted them. And so it was that the date of the letter, written in St. Petersburg, was always two or three days older than that of the postmark.
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