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At the same time those invited or expected at present may be known to Ah-Fang-Fu or to whoever acts as concierge. You see? Expected or otherwise, I assume that 'Le Balafre' would be admitted and at night I shall pass very well for 'Le Balafre' somewhat damaged as a result of my encounter with the late Charles Malet, but still recognisable!" "And I?" "You will be 'franked' in.
Thomas Underwood poured in good things of all kinds on the invalid and his house, fulfilled his promise of calling in further advice, and would have franked half the family to Torquay Nice Madeira if the doctors had given the slightest encouragement.
"And what of the money that was taken from me, and my passport, and not returned?" "Well, sir, if you succeed in establishing your innocence, they will be restored to you. Was your passport franked by the American Minister?" "Yes; and that should enable him to establish both my identity and my innocence."
In the first place, it had been posted from Puntal, and instead of the familiar violet stamp of Maritzburg, with which her other letters had been franked during the two months past, this stamp was pink, and its medallion bore the profile of Karyl. That she had left Maritzburg, and that she had written him a message to be sealed for a month, meant that the date of March 5th had significance.
"Then," said the dean of guild, "you have reason to believe that there is to be a dissolution, and that we are to be contested?" "Mr M'Lucre, dinna speer any questions," was my answer, "but look at that and say nothing;" so I pulled out of my pocket a letter that had been franked to me by the earl.
He came franked by the laird and the clergyman; he was the King's officer; the work was 'opened with prayer by the Rev. Walter Trail, minister of the parish'; God and the King had decided it, and the people of these pious islands bowed their heads.
Many were decorated with red flags and tufts, and with plumes of the Amherst pheasant. These were official pack animals, which were franked through the likin barriers without examination. The path, rising to the height of the watershed, where at a great elevation we gain a distant view of water, descends by the counterslope once more to the river Laowatan.
Poynsett thought it well to interrupt by handing in an envelope franked by Sir Robert Peel; but Cecil at once declared that the writing was different from that which Bee already owned. "Perhaps it is not the same Sir Robert," said Mrs. Poynsett. "She got it from the Queen, and they are all authenticated.
The flunkey had that night brought two London letters from the Irville post, and Kate Malcolm being out of the way when he came home, he took them both in to her ladyship on the silver server, as was his custom; and her ladyship, not jealousing that Kate could have a correspondence with London, thought both the letters were for herself, for they were franked; so, as it happened, she opened the one that was for Kate, and this, too, from the young laird, her own son.
The circulation through the kingdom of Great Britain itself was not entirely free, inasmuch as every newspaper sent through the post office was charged for by weight, at an exorbitant rate, unless it was franked by a member of Parliament.
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