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"Don't say that, mother; it would be a punishment too severe," said the mischievous little pale sister, in tones of pity, and her face brimming with mirth. Everybody laughed, and peace was restored. On the third evening, misery came to me in an envelope post-marked New York: "My DEAR PLOVINS: "I shall be with you the night after you receive this. Engage a room for me.
She believes, you see, that I am the only one who can save him." Garth muttered something which sounded uncomplimentary to Mrs. Mabyn. "But I am really fond of her," Natalie said quickly. "She has a mortal disease," she added; "one must make allowances for that." "Where is he?" Garth asked. "His last letter, eight months ago, was post-marked Spirit River Crossing," she said.
Usually the waiting-room is full of wretched men, each an epistolary Tantalus, who, with eyes fixed on the wooden grating, implore the clerk for a post-marked deception. 'Tis a sad spectacle, and I am sure that there is a post-office in purgatory, where tortured souls go to inquire if their deliverance has been signed in heaven.
He writes again, dating his letter 1st January, 1866, but post-marked 1865. It is singular, that the date as given by the writer, 1866, must have been right, and that given by the post-mark, 1865, wrong. And the fact may possibly some day be useful to some counsel having to struggle against the evidence of a post-mark. The letter commences: "MY DEAR TROLLOPE, A happy new year to you and Bice!
Giving one to his mother, who sat looking over a newspaper, he crossed the room and silently laid the other on Edna's lap. It was post-marked in a distant city and directed in a gentleman's large, round business handwriting. The girl's face flushed with pleasure as she broke the seal, glanced at the signature, and without pausing for a perusal, hastily put the letter into her pocket.
It was addressed to Dr. Herbert Farr at Vancouver, and was merely a formal notice from a firm of English solicitors post-marked London a well-known firm, probably, from the address on their letterhead. "Dr. Herbert Farr, Vancouver, B. C. Dear Sir: As executors in the estate of Mrs.
She dealt out the letters, arranged the presents, made up the books, pamphlets, trinkets, amulet coins, lock of black hair, and worn post-marked paper addressed in his hand to Clotilde von Rudiger, carefully; and half as souvenir, half with the forlorn yearning of the look of lovers when they break asunder or of one of them she signed inside the packet not 'Clotilde, but the gentlest title he had bestowed on her, trusting to the pathos of the word 'child' to tell him that she was enforced and still true, if he should be interested in knowing it.
Crabtree must have dropped both." "Let me see the letter!" cried Dick. Tom passed it over, and all three read the communication with interest. It had been sent to Josiah Crabtree while the latter had been stopping in New York, and was post-marked Albany. "It's from Dan Baxter," said Dick. The letter ran as follows: "Dear Mr. Crabtree: "I drop you a few lines as promised.
It was post-marked Boston, and bore date three days before, but it gave us no further information.
It was a curious shaped epistle, almost square, without an envelope, the name being a rough imitation of printing, and spelled Birty Kertis, Oxford; care Squier Kertis. "I think it must be intended for you," said the girl, with an arch glance. "It is post-marked Lexington." "Oh, yes, it's mine!" exclaimed the boy. "It's from Pat Riley, I guess he wrote it himself." It was indeed from Patrick.
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