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Then the major-domo was moved to write the following postscript to one of his dry reports: The Señora is dying, I guess consumption, the galloping kind. You may see her again, and you main't. We're all sorry here, for she's always bin square and kind. There still remained three weeks of the session, but Talbot's committee had finished its work, and he was practically free.
It may be proper to take notice, that the Virgidemiarum are not printed with his other writings, and that an account of them is omitted by him, through his extreme modesty, in the Specialities of his Life, prefixed to the third volume of his works in folio. The author's postscript to his satires is prefixed by the editor in the room of a preface, and without any apparent impropriety.
If I find my old notes, in all these Roman connections, inevitably bristle with the spirit of the postscript, so I give way to this prompting to the extent of my scant space and with the sense of other occasions awaiting me on which I shall have to do no less.
Eternally!..." and she had added a postscript bidding him buy a straw hat instead of his ugly felt all the distinguished people there were wearing them a coarse straw hat, with a broad blue ribbon. Jean-Christophe read the letter four times before he could quite take it all in.
At the end of this letter were the words turn over; but they were so scrawled and blotted, that Fanny thought they were only one of the strange flourishes which he usually made at the end of his name; and consequently she had never turned over, or read the postscript, when she put the epistle into her father's hands.
It is outrageous in Billy to behave as he has been behaving. All men are alike. Every one of them. It was ignorance in me to imagine Billy was different. He isn't. The more I thought of how mistaken I had been in him the madder I got, and I just wrote a postscript to my letter and flew to the post-office with it. It seemed providential that my letter was ready to send.
POSTSCRIPT. This is surely a land of coincidences. In a Tunisian paper of this very morning I read of the death, on the 13th of February, of Monsieur Thomas. It describes him as "one of the most perfect citizens of our poor humanity." He only lived a year to enjoy the annuity of six thousand francs which the Government of the Regency, with belated thoughtfulness, had granted him.
His lordship has writ but few things, and those not of the utmost consequence. Among others are the following, printed in Tonsen's Minor Poets. Verses On the death of Charles the IId. An Ode on the Marriage of the Princess Anne, and Prince George of Denmark. The Man of Honour, occasioned by a Postscript to Penn's Letter.
He had been two days without any intelligence from the Emperor, when he received an order in the handwriting of Berthier, couched in the following terms: "The Emperor desires that you halt wherever you may receive this order." After Berthier's signature the following words were added as a postscript: "You, of course, know that the enemy is in possession of Paris."
He had intended, when he was writing it, to convey to her the impression that the whole matter was a trifle and that he took it lightly. But he, too, had put his postscript. And this was it: "P.S. I look forward to a real acquaintance with you at Assouan." And now, if he gave the word to the Reis to untie, to pole off, to get out the huge oars, and to cross to the western bank of the river!
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