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I remain, as in duty bound, dear Mr. Frank, your very respectful and obedient servant, "Joseph Owen. "Postscriptum. Hope you will advise the above coming safe to hand. Am sorry we have so few of yours. Your father says he is as usual, but looks poorly."

"Yes no yes that is, I must meet Claverhouse there on some express business; so boot and saddle, Pike, as fast as you can. O, Lord! what times are these! the poor lad my old cronie's son! and the silly wench sticks it into her postscriptum, as she calls it, at the tail of all this trumpery about old gowns and new romances!"

It is an elementary rule never to use all one's powder at a single shot, and one never burns en bloc such delicate autographs. They are too valuable! Tell me, will you disdain to recognize me when you meet me, Miss Marianne?" She remained motionless, pale and as if frozen. "Then you have kept? " she said. "A postscriptum, if you like, yes."

We are proud and happy to say that Emanuel Bustamente, the young distinguished officer, of a highly distinguished family, who conducted himself so well in Yucatan during the last struggle, commanded the cavalry, and it is to his skill that we Mexicans owe the glory of having saved our flag from a deep stain. "Postscriptum.

When the Wren makes a nest for herself, I shall convert this house into a big laboratory, and be at home only to bacteria." But the Doctor, too, had a postscriptum. "Olga has been writing to me, sheer scandal, something about the letters you wot of having been obtained in a dishonest way. I won't say I believe it, or that I disbelieve it.

"'Postscriptum. Truly your golden chain hath not long abidden with me, and will now sustain, around the neck of an outlaw deer-stealer, the whistle wherewith he calleth on his hounds." "What sayest thou to this, Conrade?" said the Grand Master "Den of thieves! and a fit residence is a den of thieves for such a Prior.

I offered him the report on the 'Suppression of Savage Customs, with the postscriptum torn off. He took it up eagerly, but ended by sniffing at it with an air of contempt. 'This is not what we had a right to expect, he remarked. 'Expect nothing else, I said.

A thousand prisoners were to be distributed among some eight courtiers and others, whilst a postscriptum to his lordship's letter asked for a further hundred to be held at the disposal of the Queen.

Come! 'tis midnight; brother, we must sleep! Postscriptum. There are ghosts! I was closing this letter, my dear friend, in the midst of a solemn silence, when suddenly my ears were filled with mysterious and confused sounds that seemed to come from the outside, and among which I thought I could distinguish the buzzing murmur of a large crowd.

"I suppose," said Teresa, in the feminine postscriptum voice which it would seem entered even the philosophical calm of the aisles they were treading "I suppose that she places great value on them?" Low had indeed heard Science personified before, nor was it at all impossible that the singular woman walking by his side had also.