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Then he tossed himself back on the rug and looked at a little postage-stamp photograph Katrine had given him of herself, which he had stuck on the fly-leaf of his Greek testament. The following morning, before it was fully light, found Talbot toiling up to the west gulch on foot.
The execution is trivial enough; it is all done, and not very well done, in a space not much bigger than a postage-stamp but it is one of the many cases in which Blake, by a minute symbol, expressed a large idea. One wonders if he knew how large an idea it was.
To salary for quarter By Deduction for absence ending Jan 1st @ $75 per 1 week 3 days........... $10.00 quarter................ $75.00 "Board, lodging, etc for 10 days @ 75 cts per day.. 7.50 "Damage to Institution by absence of teacher from duties, say.............. 25.00 "Stationary furnished......... 43 "Postage-stamp................ 01 "Balance due Helen Darley. 32.06 $75.00 $75.00
In the midst of a Cabinet crisis he would hand you a postage-stamp as though it were the sole matter that concerned him. But it is also said by his intimates that he has possibilities of Olympian wrath which almost frighten people.
He proved to me by ocular demonstration that he had no money in his pockets; whereupon I proved to him by parity of reasoning that I had none in mine either. Later in the day he reappeared under my window, hurling up maudlin abuse. He had got drunk on my postage-stamp! I told him to get along with him, which he did. For some time he staggered about Broadstairs in search of its policeman.
"I feel it in my bones, and I bet you a postage-stamp it will be my fault." "Then I'd advise you to be careful," said Kittie, taking a hurried peep into the oven. "Never!" cried Kat. "Something would be sure to go wrong then; it always does when I'm trying my very level best to be a credit to my family.
There was no evidence that such a dated stamp had not been in use at Sydney on the day named. Copies from the records kept daily at Sydney, photographed copies, should have been submitted before that argument had been used. But when it came to the postage-stamp, then he told himself very quickly that the envelope had been fraudulently handled.
Well, I never was up to the flirtation business, either handkerchief, automobile, postage-stamp, or door-step, and she wasn't the kind to start anything. She read a book and minded her business, which was to make the world prettier and better just by residing on it.
"It'll buy a postage-stamp, won't it?" she was fairly aggressive now, "an' thar's a envelop what wa'n't put up ter auction in the cupboard an' a paper-bag I kin iron out, ketch me a-gwine ter the neighbors an' a-beggin' fer writin'-paper an' I'll jest set daown an' write a line ter Mis' Halsey.
I took quite as much interest as you in the matter when we were down at Cambridge. 'You see that postage-stamp? Bagwax stretched out the envelope, or rather the photograph of the envelope, for it was no more.
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