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Updated: May 19, 2025
It appears that if she stands anywhere near the curb and smiles, careless people mistake her for a pillar-box, and drop letters into her. "And such a voice!" We are told it is a perfect imitation of a motor- car. When she laughs people spring into doorways to escape being run over. If he will marry that sort of woman, what can he expect? The man is asking for it.
The photographs were a long time coming, but when they came they were "heavenly lovely" and Maggie "cried to look at them." Then she put one in an envelope and addressed it to Owen Owens, and though it had only to cross the street, she went out after dark to a pillar-box a long way off lest anybody should see her posting it.
Be sure and come. Yours, S. S." After having posted this eloquent epistle with his own hand at the pillar-box he returned to his supper, and then went, somewhat dejected, to bed. There is a famous saying of a famous modern poet which runs "Sudden the worst turns the best to the brave." And so it was with Reginald Cruden when finally the whole bitter truth of his position broke in upon his mind.
"Is it true that you once got so drunk that you mistook one of those red-coated Chelsea pensioners for a pillar-box and tried to post a letter in his stomach?" "I'm very short-sighted, Don Francesco. Besides, all that was in a previous incarnation. Do come and listen to the music! May I offer you my arm, Duchess? I have a surprise for you."
It was one evening, when he was taking your letters to post, and I waited for him at the pillar-box. I came up very quietly behind him and just nipped one of the letters, readdressed to you, out of his hand. I read the address and then posted the letter for him. It was very simple."
He told us how he went the round of all the ship-owners' offices in the City where some junior clerk would furnish him with printed forms of application which he took home to fill up in the evening. He used to run out just before midnight to post them in the nearest pillar-box. And that was all that ever came of it.
And this is what I had been stupefied to note: he was clean shaven! The Brinstead side-whiskers were gone! Whiskers that had been worn in precisely that fashion by a tremendous line of the Earls of Brinstead! And the tenth of his line had abandoned them. As well, I thought, could he have defaced the Brinstead arms. It was plain as a pillar-box, indeed.
But you aren't one and you'll never be one though you do go out every morning and come back at night, and have a leather bag and a powdered nose instead of a cap and apron." "Then I can tell you," said Caroline, pale and bright-eyed. "The charm is freedom. I'd starve before I'd ask permission to go to the pillar-box, and spend my nights in that old kitchen by myself."
When it was ready she ran down with it, herself, to the red pillar-box, opposite the shop-door. "That matter is done with," she said as the letter disappeared within the box, and she turned to re-enter. The light from the street lamp fell on her mother's name, black letters on a white ground, above the shop door. "Lydia Day, licensed to sell tobacco and snuff."
How he managed to post these cards was always a mystery; they were marked with the mark of doubling up twice, so it showed he concealed them somewhere and perhaps popped them into a pillar-box, when out for a walk. This one was dated two days ago. Could anything have happened since? She burned with impatience for Mimo to come in. A cheap, little clock struck seven. Where could he be?
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