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Updated: June 12, 2025
"What's the matter?" "I don't know, sir, but I know the doctor comes because she say to me to come back and say I am boy from doctor with medicine, and if I don't see her I must say I lost that medicine and go away, and come again as I can till I bring that money to her. She are very much afraid, sir." Billy shuffled the postcards with absent hands and stared down at them with unseeing eyes.
She came here from the Pacific coast, I believe, quite unknown, and trailing an impossible husband. That was five years ago she couldn't have been more than twenty-three. She danced in the Duncan manner, but was too lazy to keep it up. Then she went into the movies, and her face became the rage; it was on all the picture postcards.
He hurried away, and Anne stood quite still, with a strange, bewildering fear at her heart. Then she turned picture postcards had lost all their charm and went back to the hotel. That afternoon Pat went sight-seeing with a new-made friend, Darrell Connor, and his father.
First there met my eyes a scattered collection of souvenir postcards, much discolored and faded, but sufficiently preserved to awaken a clamor of protest and longing. There were tantalizing pictures of the Café de Paris and Trafalgar Square and the bund at Hong Kong. Young Mr. Lawrence must have been a confirmed souvenir-buyer.
Were it not for the wild appearance of its Tenngri mountaineers, Tosari, which is the best health resort in Java, might be readily mistaken for an Alpine village, for it has the same steep and straggling streets, the same weather-beaten chalets clinging precariously to the rocky hillsides, the same quaint shops, their windows filled with souvenirs and postcards, the same glorious view of green valleys and majestic peaks, the same crisp, cool air, as exhilarating as champagne.
I might have took a chance with him, but he went on to say that he'd sent this wheeze to the brave lads in the trenches, along with a lot of cigars and tobacco, and had got about fifty postcards from 'em saying it was the funniest thing they'd heard since the war begun.
There were picture postcards, a few photographs, and a good many restaurant bills, but they were all from places in Germany and Austria. At the bottom of the second trunk, however, she found something which he had evidently considered it worth while to preserve carefully. It was a thick sheet of official-looking paper, bearing at the top an embossed crown, and covered with German writing.
I can only write picture postcards. It's a pity. Well, one day it wasn't like that. It dropped on Wipers, and it wasn't like that. It was bloody different. I wasn't frightened, but my little inside was. "First thing was the gassed soldiers coming through. Their faces were green and blue, and their uniform a funny colour.
Let us exchange postcards, when our doings require it. 'Postcards! Althea could not repress a disconsolate note. 'How can I tell from postcards what you are thinking and feeling? 'You may always take it for granted that I'm doing very little of either, said Helen, smiling.
The two landed together, also, and Sanda let Max go with her in a big motor omnibus to the Hotel Saint George, the hotel of her patron saint, whose name Max remembered well because of postcards picturing its beautiful terrace and garden, sent him long ago by Rose when he was a cadet at West Point.
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