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He made other efforts to see and plead with her, but they were fruitless, and his own melodramatic coup, his last appearance, as he supposed, before her eyes, then followed. After that, desertion. Davies read but two of these missives, the first and the last. He restored them to her without a word.
This was the "zero" period, when in a wave of men and steel, or lead and high explosives, the Americans would go over the top, in an endeavor to dislodge the Germans from a strong position. Only a few hours before, after each had written a letter home, the missives having been sent back of the lines to be posted, the five lads had solemnly shaken hands at parting.
Here would be revenge revenge she had always longed for! while her sullen rage had been gathering all these last days. She heard the groom of the chambers approaching to collect the letters; she must decide at once. So she slipped Theodora's two missives into her blouse and walked towards the door.
Possibly few, who received courteous visits or missives from these envoys, would have admitted that they had been bribed. It was the custom of kings to send presents, and they did but answer to the call of an old acquaintance and a man who had done signal service to Rome.
She indited her missives with a dainty gold pen engraved with an orchid, which Harold had requested her never to profane by secular use. The correspondence, while throbbing with emotion, was not by any means devoid of practical details. Harold lost no opportunity of urging Eleanor to remain firm in her resolve to go to New York.
Every night could be heard the tinkle of guitars beneath bedroom- windows, notes were passed up on forked sticks, and missives freshly kissed by warm lips were dropped down through lattices; secret messengers came with letters, and now and again rope ladders were in demand; while not far away, there were always priests who did a thriving business in the specialty of Gretna Green.
"Alliance!" said the king, who had caught but that one word; "of what speakest thou, Sir Earl?" "These missives will explain all, my liege; this letter from my lady the Queen Margaret, and this from your gracious son, the Prince of Wales." "Edward! my Edward!" exclaimed the king, with a father's burst of emotion. "Thou hast seen him, then, bears he his health well, is he of cheer and heart?"
No more softly-scented missives lie upon his desk a-mornings; and, instead of blowing out the candle to dream of Daffodilia, he opens his eyes in the dark to defy the Dweller on the Threshold, if haply he should indeed already confront him. One thrilling piece of news in regard to the latter he was unable to conceal. He read it out to me one flushed morning: 'I have seen him and am his master,
I tried to acknowledge these kindly missives with the aid of a most intelligent secretary; but I fear that there were gifts not thanked for, and tokens of good-will not recognized. Let any neglected correspondent be assured that it was not intentionally that he or she was slighted.
Horses were tested and riders selected by weight and power of endurance. The latter were boys in years Bill Cody, the youngest, said to be only fourteen years of age. The pouch was light, its contents were limited but how gladly five dollars per letter was paid for those precious missives. Every detail was carefully arranged. The first mount left St.
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