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Lionel knew that Mary Tynn had been too much absorbed in his business to find room in her thoughts for letters from Australia. "Are these the letters?" he asked, taking up two from a side-table. "You'll know them by the post-marks. Do sit down and read them to me, Lionel. My sight is not good for letters now, and I couldn't read half that was in them. The ink's as pale as water.
"That you have been in the dark about me ever since. You saw that I did write?" "Yes. I have seen most of the post-marks and the interiors upside down. But Mrs Rowland was always there or else Phoebe." "And have you really known nothing about me whatever?" "Little George told me that you had lessons to learn, very hard and very long, and, if possible, more difficult than his."
He seemed, however, to control himself, darted at his son a look of wrath and scorn, and left the room. A note that evening informed Lady Bruce that business detained him from home, and that he might not return for some days. A week after Bruce received a letter with foreign post-marks, to the following effect:
It's not often hoo's stirred up to notice much. 'My heart revolts within me, and two voices Make themselves audible within my bosom. WALLENSTEIN. On Margaret's return home she found two letters on the table: one was a note for her mother, the other, which had come by the post, was evidently from her Aunt Shaw covered with foreign post-marks thin, silvery, and rustling.
Harry Somerville's letters were numerous and long. He had several from friends in Red River, besides one or two from other parts of the Indian country, and one it was very thick and heavy that bore the post-marks of Britain.
Nevertheless, I wrote again, and it was a year later when both of my letters came back to me bearing the post-marks of many cities from coast to coast, to be opened at last by the dead-letter office. The Professor was silent.
If I remember right the book had been sent to her residence, and had to be sent back again, not without danger of seriously angering him. Here are the letters I have spoken of, written by Landor to Mr. Garrow. They are all undated save by the day of the month, but the post-marks show them to have been all written in 1836-8.
This was no old envelope sealed up again no make-believe epistle to be put into the post through the nursery door: it was a real letter, with a real seal, real stamps, and a great many post-marks; and when Ida opened it there were two sheets written by the Captain's very own hand, in round fat characters, easy to read, with a sketch of the Captain's very own ship at the top, and most welcome above all! the news that the Captain's very own self was coming home.
Post-marks now-a-days are very clear, and everybody may know whence a letter comes. His letters had been brought to him by the butler; but was it not probable that that ancient female servant might have seen them first, and have conveyed to her mistress intelligence as to this post-mark? If so ; and Mr. Furnival almost felt himself to be guilty as he thought of it.
She could not decide whether to go to Europe, or to die in a swoon and be buried under a mossy headstone. He answered that he would go abroad for her; and every day she received tokens bearing New York post-marks, yet obviously coming from foreign parts: a souvenir card from the Piræus, stating that Carl was "visiting cousin T. Demetrieff Philopopudopulos, and we are enjoying our drives so much.
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