en'lope

Updated: July 15, 2026

But one day 'ere was a letter, all alone dust for me, an' my papa called me an' said, 'Here is a letter for my little girl; now, I wonder who it's from? She said this with the quaintest imitation of grown-up condescension addressing a child, waited a moment, as if to give to suspense its proper effect, and then went on: "He tored it open an' inside the en'lope was dust a tiny bit of a letter wif just a little bit of reading and writing on it.

Florence Finch Kelly - Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories