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Updated: June 15, 2025
The green-painted door, therefore, of the yellow-faced cottage, had scarcely recovered from the assault of the letter-carrier, when it was again struck violently by the impatient Captain Dunning. Miss Martha, who had just concluded and refolded the letter, screamed "Oh!" and leaped up.
Let us see what machinery the Government has to protect you and prevent the letter-carrier from bringing daily to your door the flamboyant literature intended to lure your money from the bank.
The letter-carrier, named Cristoval Ramos, and nicknamed Caballuco a personage whose acquaintance we have already made also visited the house, and to him Dona Perfecta was accustomed to address warnings and reprimands as energetic as the following: "A pretty mail service you have! How is it that my nephew has not received a single letter since he has been in Orbajosa?
Then she tried to think which she would like it to be, but she could not make up her mind. "Before parting with the soldiers Almia had exchanged cards with them, and they had assured her they would let her know how fortune should treat them. Day after day she watched and waited for the letter-carrier; but a fortnight passed, and he brought her nothing at least, nothing she cared for.
A country letter-carrier would be sent in one direction in which there were but few letters to be delivered, the arrangement having originated probably at the request of some influential person, while in another direction there was no letter-carrier because no influential person had exerted himself.
Having walked up to the cottage, the letter-carrier hit it a severe smash on its green nose, as good Captain Dunning had done many, many months before. The result now, as then, was the opening thereof by a servant-girl the servant-girl of old. The letter-carrier was a taciturn man; he said nothing, but handed in the letter, and went his way.
It was also the one occasion on which she need not have done so, for she invariably found Miss Rusted or one of the guests ahead of her. "Registered letter for Herr Von Barwig." "I'll take it to him," said Miss Husted sweetly. "He's got to come and sign it himself," said the letter-carrier, shaking his head. "Where's it from?" asked Mrs. Mangenborn, her head appearing over the bannisters.
'He'll help us f'r to make th' Ph'lippeens indepindint on us f'r support, I says; 'an', whin th' blessin's iv civilization has been extinded to his beloved counthry, an', I says, 'they put up intarnal rivinue offices an' post-offices, I says, 'we'll give him a good job as a letter-carrier, I says, 'where he won't have annything to do, I says, 'but walk, I says.
The letter-carrier is as old a man as Pa, and I didn't want to humiliate him, but I just wanted Pa to give his consent, so he couldn't kick if he got caught in his own trap. You see?
His eyes gazed vacantly at the store door, which had just opened to admit the letter-carrier. "Suppose we do lose a couple of hundred dollars trade," he said at length; "one customer like Philip Hahn will make it up ten times, Mawruss." "Well, you'll lose him, too, Abe, if you don't look out," said Morris, who had concluded the reading of a typewritten letter with a scrawled postscript.
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