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Updated: June 23, 2025
For an officer dragged a much-soiled handkerchief from his pocket and picked his way, over the tumbled masses of masonry littering the floor of the hall beyond, towards the exit which gave access to the stairs.
This was "the Word" to which reference had been made an old, much-soiled and worn Malagasy Bible, which had been buried there, so that, whatever might become of its Christian owners, it might escape being found and condemned to the flames, as so many of its fellows had been. It was a curious Bible this, in more respects than one.
Cynthia dropped the letter in her lap for she was crouching beneath the tree. It was a badly written and much-soiled letter but no missive straight from heaven could have performed a greater miracle upon her. A radiance flooded her face from brow to chin, and her eyes glistened with the happy tears that never overflowed the blue-gray wells that held them. "Sandy!"
"Glad to have him," replied Bostil. "Good. An' now mebbe we'd better get down to the bizness of this here meetin'." They seated themselves around the table, upon which Bostil laid an old and much-soiled ledger and a stub of a lead-pencil. "First well set the time," he said, with animation, "an' then pitch into details.... What's the date?"
Hope could do no less than comply, and the bulky missive was received by the listeners with as much respectful enjoyment as if it had been a neat-appearing, well-worded epistle, instead of the rambling, disjointed, much-soiled, and oddly-expressed letter that it was.
"Then don't ax me for wan," said the Irishman, "but I'll do this for ye, messmates: I'll read ye the last letter I got from the mistress, just to show ye that her price is beyond all calkerlation." A round of applause followed this offer, as Ned drew forth a much-soiled letter from the breast pocket of his coat, and carefully unfolding it, spread it on his knee.
Again it looked like an envelope, but this time the paper was not white. Geraldine regarded the small dusky square, scarcely discernible in the lamplight, and rising went toward it. She picked up the much-soiled object by its extreme corner. It bore no address.
Captain Wopper concluded by placing a small but heavy canvas bag, and a much-soiled letter, in Mrs Roby's lap. To say that the little old woman seized the letter with eager delight, would convey but a faint idea of her feelings as she opened it with trembling hands, and read it with her bright black eyes.
A round of applause followed this offer, as Ned drew forth a much-soiled letter from the breast pocket of his coat, and carefully unfolding it, spread it on his knee. "It begins," said O'Connor, in a slightly hesitating tone, "with some expressions of a a raither endearin' character, that perhaps I may as well pass." "No, no," shouted the men, "let's have them all. Out with them, Paddy!"
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