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Adjusting matters by correspondence is a slow process at best, and the Captain, having surrendered unconditionally, was not the man to delay. "I can settle more in ten minutes' talk," he told his partner, "than the three of us could in a month's letter-writin', especially if I had to write any of the letters. I never was any hand to write letters; you know that, Zoeth.
Her father wrote none "A woman's business this letter-writin'," he always held; and George, after one scornful upbraiding, had "washed his hands of her" with some sense of relief. He didn't like to write letters either. But Susie kept up a lively correspondence.
The brakeman sat down opposite, encouraged by Albert's smile. "Y' see, my division ends at Warsaw, and I run back and forth here every other day, but I don't get much chance to see them, and I ain't worth a cuss f'r letter-writin'. Y' see, she's only aunt by marriage, but I like her; an' I guess she's got about all she can stand up under, an' so I like t' help her a little when I can.
'No, it don't, replied Sam, reading on very quickly, to avoid contesting the point "Except of me Mary my dear as your walentine and think over what I've said. My dear Mary I will now conclude." That's all, said Sam. 'That's rather a Sudden pull-up, ain't it, Sammy? inquired Mr. Weller. 'Not a bit on it, said Sam; 'she'll vish there wos more, and that's the great art o' letter-writin'.
I found four or five more just like it, the last one bein' varied a little by startin', "Yours of the 5th inst. still at hand." Do you wonder she quit? If this had been a letter-writin' competition, I'd have thrown up both hands; but it wa'n't. I'd seen Mr. Robert gazin' mushy at that picture of her, and I'd watched Miss Hampton when she was tellin' me about him.
I don't know, Willum goes on to say, `what the son may be, but there's that cousin, Emma Gray, that lives in the house with 'em, she's all right. She's corresponded with me, off an' on, since ever she could write, and my brother bein' something lazy, poor fellar, through havin' too much to do I fancy, got to throw all the letter-writin' on her shoulders.
So off he sends to Denver for all the letter-writin’ books he can buy—Handbook of Correspondence, The Epistolary Guide, The Ready Letter-Writer, and a stack more. There’s no denyin’ it, Johnnie certainly did sweat hisself over them letters." "Land’s sakes!" said the fat lady.
The brakeman sat down opposite Albert, encouraged by his smile. "Y' see, my division ends at Warsaw, and I run back and forth here every other day, but I don't get much chance to see them, and I ain't worth a cuss f'r letter-writin'. Y'see, she's only aunt by marriage, but I like her; an' I guess she's got about all she can stand up under, an' so I like t' help her a little when I can.
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