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Updated: June 26, 2025
The paper was much wrinkled by the gum and the effect may be seen in the wavy and broken lines of the ink. The stamps of the first issue of Reunion were sold ungummed and were affixed to letters in any way that pleased the writers. Some were fastened by wafers and some even were pinned on.
He sounded all the walls, he looked up the funnel down which a dim light came, and he said to himself, "I am safe enough!" He sat down in a corner where the eye of a prying warder at the grating of the peephole could not see him. Then he took off his wig, and hastily ungummed a piece of paper that did duty as lining.
Come and lunch with me to-morrow, if you're not too lazy." "Yours ever, CLARA." She gave this missive to her maid, Louise Renaud, to post, that faithful attendant took it first to her own apartment where she ungummed the envelope neatly by the aid of hot water, and read every word of it.
On this table stood the empty bottle and glass, and from these also he averted his eyes. The desk was closed, but on its slanting lid lay two letters which he took up. One bore the address of a bank, and as it was stamped and sealed, Selden, after a moment's hesitation, laid it aside. On the other letter he read Gus Trenor's name; and the flap of the envelope was still ungummed.
"Grand merci!" and Cicely made an expressive grimace "Not I! I should not have had half as many lessons from Gigue, and I should never have been able to write to you without the Mere Superieure spying into my letters. That's why none of the girls are allowed to have sealing wax, because all their letters are ungummed over a basin of hot water and read before going to post. Discipline, discipline!
The other end the brown-paper end, which had come ungummed I intended to reserve for the match. When everything was ready I applied a light, leant back in my chair, and pulled. "That's all right, isn't it?" said Charles. "And you'd be surprised if I told you what I paid for it." "No, no, you mustn't think that," I protested. "Probably things are dearer in Portugal."
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