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Randal of his patient's progress, that he expected to be in England in about a fortnight and would come down himself to ascertain if the time for the second operation had arrived. He wrote in a cheery strain, and at the end of the letter was a postscript: "Have you taken my advice yet with regard to la femme?" "An ancient joke," explained Lucas with a smile.
Hitherto the poem has been written in ottava rima, a form which is sufficiently uncommon in our early seventeenth-century poetry to demand special notice in this case. In a prose postscript to this book Wither tells us that the title, The Shepherd's Hunting, which he seems to feel needs explanation, is due to the stationer, or, as we should say now, to the publisher.
"You said her ladyship was in the North, I think?" said the Colonel, drily. "Oh, yes in the North, at at Lord Wallsend's great coal-proprietor, you know." "And your sister is with her?" "Ethel is always with her." "I hope you will send her my very best remembrances," said the Colonel. "I'll open the letter, and add 'em in a postscript," said Barnes.
The postscript had not been added without much consideration. What would the tailor think of this invitation? Would he not be disposed to take it as encouragement in his pernicious suit? Would he not go to Keppel Street with a determination to insist upon the girl's promise? The Serjeant had thought that it would be best to let the thing take its chance.
We would enclose opera tickets with a note asking her to go and have a good time, signed, 'Your Fairy Godmother, and with a postscript something like this, 'If you cannot use them, hand them on to another of my godchildren. Don't you think she would accept them?" Under the spell of those lovely, serious eyes, the Candy Man rather thought she would.
Her letter was full of instructions for buying things that she wants, before I leave London. I read on quietly enough until I came to the postscript. The effect of it on me may be told in two words: I screamed. Mrs. Staveley was naturally alarmed. "Bad news?" she asked. Being quite unable to offer an opinion, I read the postscript out loud, and left her to judge for herself.
"Yes," she said, jumping up, and crossing the room to where it stood; "and if you are very good, you may write a postscript with your own hand." "I'll do it all with my own hand," he said as she returned to his side. "Why, Ned!" she exclaimed in surprise, "I thought you were a man of your word!" "And so I am, I trust," he said, smiling at her astonished look, then catching her right hand in his.
For one woman worthy to be Clarence Hervey's wife, I have seen, at a moderate computation, a hundred fit to be his mistress. If he should, on this subject, mistake the fitness of things or of persons, he would indeed be in a fair way to be unhappy for life. "The substance of a lady's letter, it has been said, always is comprised in the postscript."
For instance, in 1860, he wrote a long dissertation on Turgenieff's novel "On the Eve," which had just come out, and at the end added a postscript: "What is the price of a set of the best quality of veterinary instruments? And what is the price of a set of lancets and bleeding-cups for human use?"
The moment the division was over, Sir John Cotton rose and said, "As I think the inquiry is at an end, you may do what you will with the call." We have put it off for two months. There's a noble postscript! ARLINGTON STREET, Dec. 9, 1742.
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