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Updated: June 22, 2025
It looked like a watering-place that would be very gay in the season; there were lots of pretty boats; there was a most official-looking gendarme in a cocked hat, and two jolly young priests joking together; and there were green, frivolous French fishes swimming about in the water, and apparently left behind when the rest of the brilliant world had flown.
She was patient several seconds and then asked him if he had any news. He looked at her briefly, in silence, smiling, after which he drew from his pocket a large letter with an official-looking seal and shook it jocosely above his head. This was discreetly, covertly done. No one but our young man appeared aware of how much was taking place and poor Count Otto mainly felt it in the air.
Also there were several bundles of official-looking documents and many American newspapers. Nothing had been forwarded to him for two months, because he had left instructions to hold his mail until further notice. The first part of that time he was moving constantly from one out-of-the-way place to another where postal delivery was slow and uncertain.
What question, from similar sources, has heightened the pulse of young men from time immemorial. The proverbial little birds that carry news and prophecies through the air were evidently responsible for an official-looking letter which Austen received a few mornings later. On the letter-head was printed "The United Northeastern Railroads," and Mr.
With, exasperating slowness he added fuel to the fire. "And so " He rose and stood before them again. "And so they assigned me to the very unpleasant duty of running you down with a pardon, McKay a pardon forgiving you for all your sins, forever and ever, Amen. And here it is!" He had drawn an official-looking envelope from inside his coat, and held it out now not to McKay but to Nada.
But she is, on the other hand, unable to reconcile this idea with the reception of the letter from abroad bearing "the large official-looking seal" letters from the Continent addressed to political exiles being usually the last to court attention from foreign post-offices in that way.
Rayner was at once removed to the hospital. As he was unable to hold a pen, Captain Saltwell wrote the despatches, taking care to give due credit to the active commander of the corvette. A short time afterwards Oliver carried to the hospital to which he had never failed to pay a daily visit an official-looking letter.
He was carrying a gourd full of ink, which he placed on another stump. He set down a deerskin bag, which jingled pleasantly with coins. In one pocket he found a turkey-buzzard pen. From another he brought out an official-looking paper. "Here is the deed for the south field," he explained. "Here's a pen. I'll hold the ink for you. You make your mark right here."
There were picture postcards, a few photographs, and a good many restaurant bills, but they were all from places in Germany and Austria. At the bottom of the second trunk, however, she found something which he had evidently considered it worth while to preserve carefully. It was a thick sheet of official-looking paper, bearing at the top an embossed crown, and covered with German writing.
Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham Court Road.
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