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This came to him only on the morning of his marriage, and the envelope containing it bore the postmark of Sedbergh. He knew the handwriting well before he opened the parcel. It contained a small signet-ring with his crest, and with it there were but a few words written on a scrap of paper. "I pray that you may be happy.
Zurich handed out two fat letters with the postmark of Abingdon, New York. While Stanley read them, Zurich called across the store to a purchaser of cigars and tobacco: "Hello, Wiley! Thought you had gone to Silverbell so wild and fierce." "Am a-going now," said Wiley, "soon as I throw a couple or three drinks under my belt." "Say, Bat, do you think you'll make the morning train?
"I have a letter for Grant Thornton," was the reply. "That is my name," said Grant. He took the letter, supposing it to be from home. He was surprised to find that it had a Western postmark. He was more puzzled by the feminine handwriting. "Have you heard anything from the little boy?" asked the postman, for Mr. Reynolds' loss was well known. Grant shook his head. "Nothing definite," he said. "Mr.
It was all explained to me not long ago. Now the postmark is dated '73. There was an air of triumph about Bagwax as he said this which almost drove Curlydown back to hostility. But he checked himself merely shaking his head, and continued to look at the stamp. 'What do you think of that? asked Bagwax. 'You'd have to prove it. 'Of course I should.
It came from a certain fear. The day after her visit to Lockleigh she received a note from her friend Miss Stackpole a note of which the envelope, exhibiting in conjunction the postmark of Liverpool and the neat calligraphy of the quick-fingered Henrietta, caused her some liveliness of emotion. "Here I am, my lovely friend," Miss Stackpole wrote; "I managed to get off at last.
"Kenny," he said with some heat, "I consider that you have absolutely no right to take advantage of my letter to hunt Brian down. I'm sorry I sent it in. If he wanted you to know where he is, he'd write you. I wish to Heaven I'd thought of that postmark!" "I shall tramp every inch on foot!" swore Kenny proudly. "Brian will appreciate the spirit of the thing if you do not."
He knew what a nigger was, and at once detected another odor besides bad tobacco, and opened the window to air the room. Then he began to study the postmark to see where the letter came from. It was not very clear, and it took him some time to make out "Palatka, Fla." The latter baffled him, it was so illegible, but he was sure of "Palatka," and wondered where it was.
Bill read the letter again, and then turned it over and looked at the back of it. The back of it had nothing to say to him. "What about the postmark?" he asked. "We haven't got the envelope, unfortunately." "And you think that he got this letter on Monday." "I'm inclined to think so, Bill. Anyhow, I think I feel almost certain that he knew on Monday that his brother was coming."
Some learned society wished for information on some point, or wrote to congratulate him; foreign governments wished to bestow upon him some honor or recompense; ship-owners, or traders, solicited some favor which would serve their interests. Therefore he was not surprised when he received one morning two letters bearing the Paris postmark.
Kemp read this letter twice, "It's no hoax," he said. "That's his voice! And he means it." He turned the folded sheet over and saw on the addressed side of it the postmark Hintondean, and the prosaic detail "2d. to pay." He got up slowly, leaving his lunch unfinished the letter had come by the one o'clock post and went into his study.
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