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You're wanted on the aerodrome at a quarter past." I sit up. A shiver, and a return beneath the blankets for five minutes' rumination. Dressing will be dashed unpleasant in the cold of dawn. The canvas is wet with the night's rain. The reconnaissance is a long one, and will take fully three hours. The air at 10,000 feet will bite hard. Must send a field post-card before we start.
"If I can only get the chance of making myself agreeable to him," said Godfrey, "I'm sure I'll be able to get something out of him." "I'm surprised," I said, "at your wanting to meet him at all. After the post-card he wrote you " "Oh, I don't mind that in the least," said Godfrey. "I never take offence." This is, indeed, one of Godfrey's chief vices. He never does take offence.
"That is quite possible. He knows that Irma will worry us about the baby. Perhaps he hopes that we shall adopt it to quiet her." "Hopeful indeed." "At the same time he has the chance of corrupting the child's morals." She unlocked a drawer, took out the post-card, and regarded it gravely. "He entreats her to send the baby one," was her next remark. "She might do it too!"
Nothing on earth would matter then money or freedom or pride, or her precious moral dignity, if only she were in Nick's arms again! But there was Nick's icy letter, there was Coral Hicks's insolent post-card, to show how little chance there was of such a solution.
"There's not much to catch hold of in a biscuit-box by Huntley & Palmer," replied Raffles; "that was why I sent you for one. And I didn't write a word upon a sheet of paper which could possibly be traced. I simply printed two or three on a virginal post-card another half-penny to the bad which might have been bought at any post-office in the kingdom.
With a rush all the doubts and perplexities that I had kept at bay, even since I received Anne's post-card, re-invaded my mind; but I beat them back resolutely. I would not allow myself to think, to conjecture. I moped around aimlessly for an hour or two, telling myself that Berlin was the beastliest hole on the face of the earth. Never had time dragged as it did that morning!
Max also was enthralled by the possibilities of a walk up Baldpate. The three went out through the front door, and found under the snow a hint of the path that led to the shack of the post-card merchant. "Will you go ahead?" asked Magee of Max. "Sorry," grinned Max, "but I guess I'll bring up the rear." "Suspicion," said Mr. Magee, shaking his head, "has caused a lot of trouble in the world.
He was the last of the true correspondents, and we shall not soon look upon his like again. With all the contrivances for increasing our speed of communication, and for enabling us to cram more varied action into a single life, we have less and less time to spare for salutary human intercourse. The post-card symbolises the tendency of the modern mind.
Indeed, not a character in the book that wasn't well represented in a picture on the wall or a painted post-card, and all seemed at least as real to the people of Lecco as any of their modern fellow-citizens. "I believe you don't approve of stories about wicked Princes like Innominato," said Beechy, "and that's why you don't want us to go.
She ran easily up the stairs, three at a time. Mr. Mortimer turned to Mr. Bennett. "It's all very well your saying Wilhelmina mustn't go, but, if she doesn't, how can we get the police? The house isn't on the 'phone, and nobody else can drive the car." "That's true," said Mr. Bennett, wavering. "Of course, we could drop them a post-card first thing to-morrow morning," said Mr.
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