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Updated: May 29, 2025
He was summoned; and the great man of the occasion contented himself with holding his hands up to the heavens as he stood up from his chair, and, exclaiming twice, "Mis-sent the Monarch's pouch! Mis-sent the Monarch's pouch!"
Collingwood, holding up two large letters, all scribbled over with "Try this place and try that, mis-sent to Cross-keys Over moor, and heaven knows where and no matter."
Besides, my note was so respectable, and respectful, it surely required and demanded something more of an answer, methinks, from a person of birth or education, than the single bald word 'mis-sent, like the postman! Surely, Miss Hanley, now, putting your friendship apart, candidly you must think as I do?
"Now all I want from you then, Miss Hanley Stanley I would say, I beg pardon, I'm the worst at proper names that lives but all I want of you, Miss Hanley, is first, your opinion as to the validity of the handwriting, well, you are positive, then, that this mis-sent is her hand. Now then, I want to know, do you think Lady Davenant knew what she was about when she wrote it?"
It is only a compliment that I want to make, and nothing in the world expected in return for it as it is a return in itself. But in the first place look at this cover." She produced the envelope of a letter. "Is this Lady Davenant's handwriting, think you?" She pointed to the word "Mis-sent," written on the corner of the cover. Helen said it was Lady Davenant's writing. "You are certain?
Well, that is odd! Mis-sent! when it was directed to herself, and nobody else on earth, as you see as plain as possible Countess Davenant, surely that is right enough?" Then opening a red morocco case she showed a magnificent diamond Sevigne.
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