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Updated: May 9, 2025
At the post office near her old home she changed her open postal-order, and was given a half-sovereign and ten shillings-worth of silver. This money she carefully put, in paper, inside her blouse. She was then ready for her interview. At the old address new tenants already occupied the first floor flat, and Mr. Clancy stood at the gate smoking his pipe.
A stamp, a card, a newspaper wrapper, a postal-order, a letter to be registered anything but an honest purchase across the counter or the blessed tendering of a prescription to make up. From vexation he passed to annoyance, to rage, to fury; he cursed the post-office, and committed to eternal perdition the man who had waxed eloquent upon its advantages.
Your affectionate Aunt Emmy." Enclosed was a postal-order for a pound. Sally's heart seemed to stop beating for an instant. She looked again at the postal-order, and with a sharp movement put it inside her blouse. Then she put the letter in the fire, and watched it flame and blacken and flick to pieces in the draught.
She turned again, reflecting that Lennox must have already received the postal-order, which she had mailed the night before, and wondering whether he had liked her little scrawl of indignant thanks. "I'll tell you about it later," she added. "Now I must get your dinner. How would you like a tenderloin, a salad, and a box of Camembert?" He shuffled. "There is no Camembert any more."
How could he enclose a postal-order in a telegram? She expected him, the next thing, to go into the corner and make up one of his telegrams half a dozen of them on purpose to prolong his presence. She had so completely stopped looking at him that she could only guess his movements guess even where his eyes rested.
On the card I wrote "With kindest love from" just above the names, and posted it to Eliza's mother. So far was Eliza's mother from being offended that she sent Eliza a present of a postal-order for five shillings, three pounds of pressed beef, and a nicely worked apron. On glancing over that sentence, I see that it is, perhaps, a little ambiguous.
She felt that, oleaginous too oleaginous as he was, he was somehow comparatively primitive: she had once, during the portion of his time at Cocker's that had overlapped her own, seen him collar a drunken soldier, a big violent man who, having come in with a mate to get a postal-order cashed, had made a grab at the money before his friend could reach it and had so determined, among the hams and cheeses and the lodgers from Thrupp's, immediate and alarming reprisals, a scene of scandal and consternation.
Still, none the less, when he again saw her free he continued to keep away from her; when he came back with his thumbed Guide it was Mr. Buckton he caught it was from Mr. Buckton he obtained half-a-crown's-worth of stamps. After asking for the stamps he asked, quite as a second thought, for a postal-order for ten shillings. What did he want with so many stamps when he wrote so few letters?
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