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Updated: October 10, 2025
If she did so, she could not always be on her guard, and something, I thought, might drop from her which I could turn to advantage. 'Does not the Squire usually look into his letter-bag, Dorcas? said I, with as much indifference as I could assume. 'That a does, said Dorcas; 'and a threw out a letter of mine to Raff Miller, because a said'
The Doctor kept the letter-bag on his knee, then, presently, opened it, looked at the letters contained there, and read one or two of his children's letters, his face in the meanwhile lighting up. He asked me to tell him the news. "No, Doctor," said I, "read your letters first, which I am sure you must be impatient to read."
At each of these stations the horseman carrying the letter-bag was relieved by a fresh man on a fresh steed, to whom the letters were transferred, and who, in his turn, darted off like the wind, to be again replaced at a similar distance by another rider. These couriers, called Angari, were considered the swiftest horsemen in the world.
I expect you to show your zeal in the service, and I have no doubt that you will be able to give a satisfactory account of your proceedings." Adair, highly pleased, thanked the commodore, and hastened back with the letter-bag to the corvette. He longed to see its contents, for he felt sure that he should hear from Mrs Murray, if not from Lucy herself.
When we had finished prayer, it was found to be a brother from Tetbury, who had brought from Barnstaple £1 2s. 6d. for the Orphans. Thus we have £1 14s. 6d., with which I must return the letter-bag to the Orphan-Houses, looking to the Lord for more. "Aug. 6. Without one single penny in my hands the day began.
The letter-bag contained three letters for himself, two with the foreign postmark, the third in Ardworth's hand. It contained also a letter for Madame Dalibard, and two for Varney.
It was he who had kept up an unaccountable and close correspondence with a young lady whose whole letter-bag was intercepted, by the extraordinary trick of photographing his messages infinitesimally small upon the slides of a microscope. A sweeping simplicity, however, marked many of his experiments.
"I have the answer here," he said, tapping his letter-bag, "and I shall deliver it immediately." * From another letter to the friend mentioned in the note appended to the "Doomed Train." "How can you have the answer before I have written it?" I asked. "You are making a mistake." "No," he said."
At each of these stations the horseman carrying the letter-bag was relieved by a fresh man on a fresh steed, to whom the letters were transferred, and who, in his turn, darted off like the wind, to be again replaced at a similar distance by another rider. These couriers, called Angari, were considered the swiftest horsemen in the world.
After sealing and directing her precious letter, and placing it in the letter-bag which hung at the lower end of the corridor, Daisy hurried back to her own apartment and crept softly into her little white bed, beside Sara, and was soon fast asleep, dreaming of Rex and a dark, haughty, scornful face falling between them and the sunshine the cold, mocking face of Pluma Hurlhurst. Mme.
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