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The Count obstinately accompanied us to the tea-table waited a minute or two in the room went out into the hall and returned with the post-bag in his hands. It was then eight o'clock the hour at which the letters were always despatched from Blackwater Park. "Have you any letter for the post, Miss Halcombe?" he asked, approaching me with the bag.
Now she would have the satisfaction of feeling that at any rate he knew her true intent in crossing his path, and annoying him so by her performance, and be taught perhaps to despise it a little less. Four days later an envelope, directed to Miss Swancourt in a strange hand, made its appearance from the post-bag. 'Oh, said Elfride, her heart sinking within her.
From the upper end of the town he saw in the distance the grand grey towers of Stancy Castle looming over the leafless trees; he felt stupefied at what he had done, and said to himself with bitter discontent: 'Well, well, what is more contemptible than a half-hearted rogue! That morning the post-bag had been brought to Paula and Mrs. Goodman in the usual way, and Miss Power read the letter.
Go on following Miss Vane; I want to know whom she sees, where she goes, what she does if possible, what she talks about. Does she get letters letters, I mean beside those that come in the post-bag?" "I don't know, ma'am." "Make it your business to know, then. You can go;" and Flossy turned away her face, so as not to see Parker's rather blundering exit.
So Mollie wrote a short letter to her brother, enclosing the group which had worked the magic charm for herself that afternoon. She put it into the evening post-bag with a sigh. "If that doesn't do it I can't think of anything else," she said to herself. It is remarkable how quickly one becomes used to a new routine.
I remember that my uncle Hector always looked at the name attached to a letter when he unclosed the post-bag; and if the handwriting looked like an attorney's he flung it, without reading a line, into the fire." "This letter, sir, is subscribed 'Selby Sly." "Don't burn it, Frank, read.
As she went to her place she glanced through the window, from which she could see the steps at the corner of the terrace and a small part of the ruined chapel, and she shuddered. When she had poured out her father's coffee, she took it round to him and let her hand rest on his shoulder lovingly; but Jason had brought in the post-bag and Mr.
See Goldsmith's Comedy, Act III. King Lear, Act III. Sc. 2. James Pringle, Convener of Selkirkshire for more than half a century. For an account of the Pringles of Torwoodlee, see Mr. Craig Brown's History of Selkirkshire, vol. i. pp. 459-470. "The Insurrection of the Papers a Dream." The Twopenny Post-Bag, 12mo, London, 1812.
I want the key," said Magdalen, passing from the imitation at the breakfast-table to the post-bag on the sideboard with the easy abruptness which characterized all her actions. Mr. Vanstone searched his pockets and shook his head. Though his youngest daughter might resemble him in nothing else, it was easy to see where Magdalen's unmethodical habits came from.
Spensonly owing to folly of bribing-fellow sending cash to office and the letter getting into Mr. Spensonly's post-bag and opening by mistake. "But the Sahib took me up into his office to soften blow to progenitor and that shows he was a bad man or his luck would not have been to take me in and give chance to murder him.
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