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Updated: June 25, 2025
Had she not, during the past years, often seen such missives, from which the Professor had read her scraps of news? She carried it to the light and scrutinized the postmark. It was "London," and posted that very morning early! For a moment all was a blank, and she found herself grasping the back of Cheiron's big chair to prevent herself from falling.
Once a day she telegraphed or wrote to him, and the task of replying to all these missives weighed so heavily on his spirits that it drove him from his quarters, where so many unfulfilled obligations lay in wait for him.
The obligation will be a very great one, and Sebastian is a worthy man. If, then, your kind offers are thrown away on me, they will not be so on Sebastian, for I am certain he will prove a credit to your Lordship." In his following missives Sebastiano flatters Michelangelo upon the excellent effect produced by the letter.
The girls were glad that the letters had come from the boys just as they had, for it helped them to bridge over the tediously long wait till the next morning. They read the missives with the little red triangles in the left hand corner over and over again and whisper it! at least two of them slept with the precious letters under their pillows. And then the morning was upon them.
In this way, they had agreed to leave missives for each other as they passed on. This note informed them that the walking party was going to take the short cut across the meadows, and would still be in front of them. They saw the party at last, just beyond the short cut; but Mr. Peterkin was explaining the character of the oak-tree to his children as they stood around a large specimen.
Merchants on the brink of ruin had deposited missives whose answer would make or break them; others had dropped upon the swelling heap tidings that would make poor men rich rich men richer; maidens came with delicately written notes, perfumed and gilt-edged, eloquent with love and cast them amidst invoices and bills of lading.
Si gnashed his teeth as he saw the cherished missives rudely torn open and scanned, and especially when the ambrotype case was opened and Annabel's features made the subject of coarse comment. The imminent prospect of being murdered had a much lighter pang. While the letters and ambrotype were being looked over the process of robbery was going on.
These precious missives from the loved ones at home were given to him, and the soldier boy opened them with fear and trembling, lest he should find in them some bad news; but his mother and all the family were well. One of them was written since the battle, and it was evidently penned with deep solicitude for his fate, of which nothing had been heard.
Some of them were murderously spelled; others were missives in such elegant phrase and dress, that danger was only to be apprehended in them by one skilled in the mysteries of medieval poisoning, when death flew on the wings of a perfume. It is, however, to be expected, that retributive justice would visit the innocent as well as the guilty of an offending family.
The versatile population were touched by the humility of their sovereign: they agreed to adhere to the capitulation, and there was even a faint shout of "Long live Boabdil the Unfortunate!" and they all returned to their homes in perfect tranquillity. Boabdil immediately sent missives to King Ferdinand apprising him of these events, and of his fears lest further delay should produce new tumults.
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