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Updated: June 25, 2025
King endeavored to read at the first, but he soon threw them down impatiently. "The child shall never go to a woman who has no more sense," he loudly declared. Then Polly or Jasper would hurry in and wade through the missives.
Thou wilt not long be bearing missives for your abbot, if thou art like thy sires. Thou art soon for Normandy?" I wished not to unfold my purpose to this man, so I simply bowed, and prepared to go with due courtesy.
A similar letter was sent to the king, and another to the Duchess de Berri; but all the three missives were careful to state that the Duke of Normandy had no desire to sit upon the throne or to disturb the tranquillity of France, but would be content to accept a reasonable pension and hold his tongue to surrender all his claims, and retire into obscurity for ever, if he were well paid.
With a smile that was rather more sleepy than dreamy, the industrious young freshman picked up the precious missives. "O Lila, my magnanimous roommate, are you asleep? Do you want to listen to my last valentines? I intend to run down and put them in the senior caldron presently. Is this sentimental? When I read it to Berta, she laughed at it. "My Music
Regard not me, she cried in anguish. Richard gave a strange laugh as he answered, 'There was a time when I had doubted the sun in heaven as soon as thy word, Dorothy. This is surely an evil time. Tell me, yea or nay, hast thou missives to the king or any of his people? Palter not with me. But such an appeal was what Dorothy would least willingly encounter.
There was the fatherly letter from the country rector who christened Millicent, and thinks that he may be asked to marry her in a fashionable London church and so to a bishopric. On heavily-crested stationery follow the missives of the ladies whose daughters would make sweet bridesmaids.
Bolt was threatened in similar style, but he merely handed the missives to Ransome; he never flinched. Not so Little. He got nervous; and, in a weak moment, let his mother worm out of him that he was at war with the trades again. This added anxiety to her grief, and she became worse every day. Then Dr.
On going to his seat, each boy found a letter and a package staring him in the face; and from that time until the Deacon called the school to order, no sound was heard, save the rustling of paper as the boys read the missives, .while the girls appeared to have no thought save for their books, which they were studying with most remarkable intentness.
He trusted that it would soon pass away that the people would be too sensible of the sweets of peace to repine at the price at which it was obtained; at any rate, he trusted to the strong friendship of the Christian sovereigns to secure him even against the factions of his subjects. The first missives from the politic Ferdinand showed Boabdil the value of his friendship.
She herself would call any act like that contemptible." At this crisis Berta sneezed sneezed hard and long and with suspicious vehemence. And when Bea cast one lingering farewell glance toward the caldron, she perceived that the topmost missives were sliding over the edge in the breeze raised by that gusty sneeze.
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