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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Tiens!" said she, "wait a moment there's a parcel for you, M'sieur Müller." And so, hobbling back again, she brought out a small flat brown paper-packet sealed at both ends. "Ah, I see from the Emperor!" said Müller. "Did he bring it himself, Madame Duphôt, or did he send it by the Archbishop of Paris?" A faint grin flitted over the little old woman's withered face.
As she opened the door, Madame Fontaine passed her in the hall, in walking costume, with a small paper-packet in her hand. "There is a pen, Minna. Sit down by me, and write what I tell you." The ink-bottle had been replenished by the person charged with that duty; and he had filled it a little too full. In a hurry to write the first words dictated, Minna dipped her pen too deeply in the bottle.
Haddo or Fanny could utter a word Farmer Miles had strode across the room, thrust his big, rough hand into Fanny's neat little pocket, and taken out the brown paper-packet. "There, now," he said, "that's the kernel of the nut. I thought I'd do it somehow. Thank you kindly, ma'am, for listening to me.
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