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She rose, too, talking all the time, to fetch from her writing-case the type-written circular where the parish's need for such a room was stated, and the paper, in her husband's handwriting, on which the sums already collected, and their source, were set forth. A hundred and thirty pounds were still wanted. What was a sum like that to this millionaire at the Court?
Smitherton finished pasting a clipping into the blank place in a type-written page and rose slowly. "Well?" he inquired shortly. "What is it? This is Smitherton." At once he recognized the voice which replied, and recognized that it came faintly and full of indecision. "This is Mary Burton, Mr. Smitherton. Do you do you think you could still find me work in vaudeville?" "Oh!"
"Nature brings not back the mastodon, Nor we those times." Presently he told me that he had been writing poetry. He handed me a type-written copy of a ballad, and asked me what I thought of it. I told him that I felt the want of an explanatory stanza near the beginning. "Yes," he said; "But I can't take your advice, because then it would not be quite my own."
"Here are the letters received this morning, sir, and type-written copies of the answers to yesterday's correspondence which Mr. Rochester dictated before leaving," Sylvester explained as he placed the papers on Kent's desk. "If you will o.k. them, I will mail them at once."
But one morning I think it was the 5th of January, when we had passed Buda and were moving through great sodden flats just sprinkled with snow the captain took it into his head to get me to overhaul the barge loads. Armed with a mighty type-written list, I made a tour of the barges, beginning with the hindmost.
He tore it open, and read in neatly type-written characters: "I have resigned my place as typewriter girl, having been offered a better situation. I am offered a partnership in the house of Richard Denham. I have decided to accept the position, not so much on account of its financial attractions, as because I shall be glad, on a friendly basis, to be associated with the gentleman I have named.
He, after his footless fashion, didn't bother to acknowledge my note. His margin account with me was at the moment straight; I turned to his father. I had my cashier send him a formal, type-written letter signed Blacklock & Co., informing him that his account was overdrawn and that we "would be obliged if he would give the matter his immediate attention."
Tell your little cousins I think they had better get upon the fence with me until after the election; for there are so many parties and candidates that I doubt if such youthful politicians would make a wise selection. Please give my love to Rosy when you write, and believe me, Your loving friend HELEN KELLER. P.S. How do you like this type-written letter? TO MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND My dear Mrs.
Any documentary evidence surrounding a case of mysterious death is always of interest. In this case, being of such a suspicious nature, it was doubly so. "Are you quite decided not to assist me?" another letter ran. It was likewise type-written, and from the same source. "Recollect you did so once, and were well paid for it.
He was on the point of handing the type-written list back to the purser's clerk when he noticed a few names written in red ink three civilians who had been taking passages in ships that had fallen victims to the raider Porfurst. "MacGregor Robert; of Umfuli, Rhodesia that's remarkable," thought Wilmshurst. "That's the name of Rupert's chum. Wonder if it's the same man?
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