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"Poor great men!" exclaimed Caesar. "Their statues serve only to decorate a public garden." "They had their lives," replied Laura, gaily; "now we have ours." Laura ordered the coachman to stop a moment. The air was still murmuring in the foliage, the birds singing, and the clouds flying slowly across the sky. A man with a black box approached the carriage to offer them postcards.
The postcard venders of Louvain must have grown fat with wealth; for, next to bottled beer and butter and cheap cigars, every common soldier craved postcards above all other commodities.
Then all walked around to the post-office, both to see the building and to send the things away. It was while the others were addressing their packages and also some picture postcards, that Dave saw a sight that interested him greatly. Near one of the doorways was a small and ragged newsboy with half a dozen papers under his arm.
And Red Umbrella, who derives a considerable income from percentages upon the sale of her photographs, and is conscious that her celebrated features are figuring upon several of the postcards that hang up for sale in the window of the only stationer in Herion, is a little nettled. "I refer to the stage, of course."
True, he might have nothing for him, he might be going to deliver at the grocer's shop, or at the "Cricketer's Arms." "Any letters for me, to-day?" "Yes, sir, two postcards and a newspaper." It was disappointing not to get a letter postcards meant nothing. He only exchanged a few words with Mrs.
"They're just off to the caves," put in the girl. "While Mrs. Devar writes her postcards, I suppose?" said Medenham innocently. "What! Is that the old party with the hair? I thought she was the young lady's mother. She's gone with them. She looks that sort of meddler not half. Two's company an' three's none is my motto, cave or no cave." She tried her most bewitching smile on Medenham this time.
In vain Marie made flower fairies for his pillow, in vain the little mice, now quite tame, played hide-and-seek over the bed, in vain Peter paused long enough in his frantic search for Harmony to buy colored postcards and bring them to him. He was contented enough; he did not suffer at all; and he had no apprehension of what was coming.
At any rate, there being no sign of your car when we reached the top of a long hill, we er we discussed matters, and decided to explore the byroad." "Did you remain long in Cheddar? If Fitzroy hit up the pace, why were you so far behind?" "I waited a few minutes to address some postcards. And that reminds me Fitzroy sent a most impertinent message by one of the servants " "Impertinent!"
He is older than I. He has done his service and got one wound out of it in what they used to call war that child's play in the Tirah years ago. He thinks himself a soldier! But that is not his offence. He sends me postcards, Sahib scores of postcards whining about the drouth or the taxes, or the crops, or our servants' pilferings or some such trouble. He doesn't know what trouble means.
If we had the other girls, I suppose they would be at school all day; but surely some might go to Beechcroft. And mind, Jane, I will not have you overtasking yourself! Do not take any of them without having Gillian to help you. That I stipulate. Jane Mohun seemed as if she did not hear as these sentences were uttered at intervals, while she stood dashing off postcards at her davenport.
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