My only regret--and it was indeed a deep one--was that I had lost the letter he had given me with injunctions to open it after his death.
He killed my poor friend, and then committed suicide;" and I briefly explained how Whitaker had given me theletter which two hours afterwards had been stolen from me.
On our journey she gave me an address in the Vauxhall Bridge Road, where, she said, a letter would find her.
Will you keep this letter until I am dead, and afterwards open it and act upon its instructions?
If the thief knew me, as he most probably did, he might return the letter anonymously when he discovered that it was of no value.
I had placed the dead man's letter in her hand, and she was reading it breathlessly, her sweet face blanched, her tiny hands trembling.
Of course, you were the one who sent Mrs. Hodges a letter with six dollars.
The letterwas mailed at exactly the hour we heard the six raps!
I was talking to the Chief of Police about that letter trick only this morning, Penny.
Notice the postmark," she requested, thrusting the letter into Penny's hand.
Soon she was trying to reopen the subject of the mysterious letter received by the Hodges.
In return for his letter of admiration and sympathy, he received an invitation to the Grasmere valley.
I have heard of a man who, when he received a letter from the Prime Minister of the day offering him a place of great dignity, thought the letter was a hoax, and did not notice it for several days.
When he was about to make war and desired money, he sent out a letter asking not only the bishops and barons to meet him but two knights from every shire and two citizens from every city and two burgesses from every borough.
There, too, Richard received a letter telling him that his brother John was plotting to take away his inheritance and that the King of France intended to make war on Normandy.
I have received quite recently an account of such a case in a letter from my friend, Max Henry Ferrass, formerly Inspector of Schools in India, and the author of a valuable work on Burmah.
I have received a letter from the great American champion of Women's Rights in which she states how pleased she is that I am writing this book on the Mother-age.
The said charter is fair written in the Saxon letter and tongue.
Then my brother, by the help of some who showed him favor, had that letter conveyed to Akusch of which Eppelein had been robbed hard by Pillenreuth.
When Governor Dinwiddie sent Washington in 1753 with a letter to M.
One of the most interesting documents in early temperance agitation is the letter of the mayor of Philadelphia in 1821, showing the condition of the liquor traffic at that time.
In 1696 Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, a judge who had refused to sit in the Salem witchcraft cases, wrote a letter to the Salem court remonstrating against licensing public houses.
The legislature of Massachusetts sent a letter to each of the other colonial legislatures, urging them to unite and consult for the protection of their rights.
Their purpose was to save time, for letter postage was frequently (but not always) prepaid.
At that time (1840) three cents was the postage for a local letterwhich was not delivered by a carrier.
McClellan, in his letter of acceptance, repudiated both of these sentiments.
Under these conditions, the business of the whole country was at a standstill, and as Congress had no power to do anything to relieve the distress, the state of Virginia sent out a circular letter to her sister states.
The letter of Massachusetts to the colonial legislatures having given great offense to the King, the governors were ordered to see to it that the legislatures did not approve it.
But when he could go once to the post office and prepay a hundred letters by buying a hundred stamps, any one of which affixed to a letter was evidence that its postage had been paid, any man who wanted to could save his time.
This consumed the time of the postmaster and the letter writer.
But instead of fixing a stamp on the envelope (there was no such thing in 1840), the writer sent the letter to the post office and paid the postage in money, whereupon the postmaster stamped the letter "Paid.
The result was a very dutiful letter written by Anne to her father; but as Lady Fitzharding acted as a spy for the king, both he and Queen Mary knew all about the letter long before it reached its destination.
The duchess was so angry at the dismissal of her son-in-law that she sent a letter to her husband, which he was to copy and forward to her majesty as though it were expressive of his own wrath, but he tossed it into the fire.
Added to that, a letter was handed to Queen Mary by her lord chamberlain, which proved to be from her father,--the first he had written her since her arrival in England.
The princess must have felt her welfare at stake as well as that of her son; otherwise she could not have been induced to write so dutiful a letter to the brother-in-law who had treated her so unkindly for many years.
At the conclusion of the letter the princess added, that she would not think of returning to the Cockpit to live unless it was agreeable to her majesty.
Anne wrote her sister a letter full of remonstrance, praising the virtues of Lady Marlborough, and refusing to part with her.
Mary wrote her father a congratulatory letter when he married Jane Seymour, but he took no notice of it, nor addressed her in any way until she was requested through his privy councillor to sign a paper renouncing all right to the throne.
Some passages were so insolent that the letter was not answered; but as the queen passed to the altar of St. James's Chapel, she bestowed a gracious smile on the writer.
At the risk of throwing the creature out of train I interrupted: "How could you write a letter up yonder?
Then I sends a letter to Dravot wherever he be by land or by sea.
The lady then wrote the letter Sir Austin held open to his sister.
The memory of his misfortune came upon him vividly, as if no years had intervened, and it were but yesterday that he found the letter telling him that he had no wife and his son no mother.
It was a letter from the unhappy lady who had given Richard birth,--brief cold lines, simply telling him his house would be disturbed by her no more.
During this trying and doubtful period there came to him a cheery letter from President Jefferson who had only learned of his illness.
Recall that positively fascinating letter (1788) from Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, in which occur these words: Remember me affectionately .
That his friends might be apprised of his real intentions the following letter was permitted to find its way into the newspapers: Northumberland Oct.
Footnote 8: The original of this letteris now the property of Dr.
Tychicus was obliged to pass through Laodicea on his way to Colossae, and would leave a copy there before the Colossian letter was delivered.
Colossians is a letterof discussion; Ephesians of reflection.
At the close of his epistle to the Colossians St Paul directs this Church to procure "from Laodicea," in exchange for their own, a letter which he is sending there (iv.
The epistle to the Colossians is altogether a letter of conflict (see ch.
The apostle, in this letter so exuberant in expression, yet on occasion is as concise as in Galatians.
It is supposed that the letter was destined for a number of Churches in Asia Minor, which Tychicus was directed to visit in the course of the journey which took him to Colossae.
The Apocalyptic letter "to the seven churches which are in Asia," ranging from Ephesus to Laodicea (Rev.
He had to free the gospel from the swaddling-bands of Judaism, to emancipate the spirit from the letter of a mechanical and legal interpretation.
There is abundant reason to be satisfied that this letter came, as it purports to do, from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through God's will.
But this letter is written, as we observed at the outset, from a peculiarly objective and impersonal standpoint.
In everything give thanks," he wrote to the Thessalonians in his earliest extant letter (1 Ep.
Reading this verse in the light of the companion letter to Colossae and the letters addressed to Timothy when at Ephesus a few years later, we can understand its significance.
But if the Church is so dear to God as the pages of this letter show, and grounded in His eternal purposes, then let all friends of Christ take courage.
In his letter to the Romans St Paul declares that the second of these deplorable characteristics was the consequence of the former, and a punishment for it inflicted by God.
As he grew older he seemed to be annoyed when told of things he had forgotten, and as the letter had evidently gone from his mind, Jerrie said no more of it.
There was only the fine towel left, and Jerrie looked long and thoughtfully at the letter "M" embroidered in the corner.
He was thinking of the letter and of the lies he had told since his deception began, and how sure it was that he had sinned beyond forgiveness.
He had faith in Jerrie--that she would not change, and when he read the Judge's letter in the privacy of his room at the Tacoma, he rejoiced with an exceeding great joy that her home and birthright had been so strangely restored.
I wrote her a letter long ago--a year, it seems to me--and it has never been posted.
When Maude thought she was going to die, and before she knew who I was, she wrote a letter for her father and you, asking him to give me what he would have given her, and you to do the same.
This letter was given by Pedro de Cordova to Las Casas.
In the same sentence were included several of his officers as well as Arguello, who had written a letter to put him upon his guard.
It produced so pleasant an impression on his mind that, in his letter describing it to Ferdinand and Isabella, he compared its appearance to that of the Spanish province of Valencia in the early spring.
Lastly, he prevailed on the governor of Panamá to supply him with a ship, in which he despatched a letter from the Emperor to Gonzalo Pizarro, and likewise one from himself.
It was Nuñez’ extreme misfortune that this letter should fall into the hands of Pedrarias, and that the latter should by this means become convinced of the existence of a plot against his authority.
A letter was likewise written at the same time to the latter, informing him of this arrangement, and requiring him to consult with Vasco Nuñez upon all affairs of importance.
It is even said that Garabito in his jealousy went so far as to send an anonymous letter to Pedrarias, stating that Nuñez had no intention of marrying his daughter, and that he was merely playing a part to gain time.
The king of France was, however, so touched by the letter of the Vaudois that he was about again to intercede, when the intrigues of the same agents had the effect of convincing him that the statements of the Vaudois were without foundation.
As we find in the letter which they addressed to OEladislaus, king of Bohemia, they style themselves "the little flock of Christians, falsely called Vaudois.
The Bishops of Italy also proclaimed their discontent in a letterwhich they addressed, by means of Photius, to the patriarchs of the Greek churches.
The letter was returned unopened, with the verbal excuse that the Chinese did not permit him to receive communications from any foreign Power.
A letter was sent Dorje Phagmo, asking if she would receive three British officers, including the antiquary of the expedition.
A letter was received from the Amban stating that he would certainly reach Gyantse within the next three weeks, and that competent and trustworthy Tibetan representatives would accompany him.
The Dalai Lama has sent him a letter sealed with his own seal.
An officer was sent to the gate with an escort of three men and a letter saying that if the provisions were not handed over within an hour we would break into the monastery and take them, if necessary, by force.
He gave the Custos the letter to Dyck Calhoun, and a few moments later handed the proclamation to his aide-de-camp.
She sent me a letter asking if it was not time I came to wish you well in your house, and you and she would expect me to-day.
A letter from Salem, sir," he said, and handed it over to Dyck.
Here the letter shall again take up the story, and be a narrative of Dyck Calhoun's life from that time until this Christmas Day.
There it lies, beside thisletter that I am writing.
The papers he held were sheets of a letter he was writing to one from whom he had heard nothing since the night he enlisted in the navy, and that was nearly three years before.
Michael," he said, "the news in the letter came from Darius Boland.
It is near three years since a letter came to me from you, and in the time I have made progress.
On the second reading, however, it did strike even Colin, who was only just beginning his own self-education in literary matters, that the letter might have been better spelt and worded and punctuated.
Now, I know you won't mind my telling you, but thatletter wasn't all spelt right, or stopped right.
Colin took the letter from the postman, as he was working at the clay of a little bas-relief for a mural tablet, and read it over twice to himself with very mingled and uncertain feelings.
He pocketed the letter with a slight sigh, and went on moulding the drapery of St. Mary Magdalene, after the design from a fresco in St. John Port Lateran.
Reggie folded the letter and put it back in his pocket.
By the way though, I did hear of him the other day in a letter I had from Miss Mary.
Moreover, there was something in the General's letter plainly stating the bare facts that he did not exactly like.
I'll do it now, this instant, and the letter will catch the 7.
Stop," said Ekkehard, "why should the letter not be genuine?
He walked about amongst us like any other monk, and that he was not offended thereby, the letter of protection, which he threw over the wall, when departing well proved.
A letter accompanied this magnificent piece of feathered game.
Kitty Tynan thought of the unopened letterin a woman's handwriting in the green baize desk in her mother's house.
Never in anything else had she been inquisitive or prying where the man was concerned; but she felt that this letter had the heart of a story, and she had made up fifty stories which she thought would fit the case of J.
I have still a letter written to me which was delivered at my door sixteen years ago.
She had also noted that it was the same letter on each occasion; that it was a closed letter, and also that it was unstamped.
The basis of the book has a letter written by a wife to her husband at a critical time in his career when he had broken his promise to her.
The writer of the letter who was then my enemy is now my friend.
Also she had seen him more than once sitting with a letter before him and gazing at it for many minutes together.
One or two critics said the situation is impossible, because no man would carry a letter unopened for a long number of years.
They are just living up to the strict letter of the State's requirement and that is all.
In the same letter he has it that he considers it quite certain that Carlstadt, Gabriel Zwilling and the fanatical Anabaptists were preaching without any real call, in fact, against God’s will.
Such were his achievements for the cause, that Luther greets him in the superscription of a letter as “Bishop of the Church of Wittenberg, Legate of Christ’s face and heart to Denmark, my brother and my master.
During these negotiations Luther replied from Torgau, on October 28, to the letter from the Landgrave referred to above, though in general and evasive terms.
In his letter to Luther, he even makes use of comparisons from the Bible, just as Luther himself was in the habit of doing, and this he did again at a later date when seeking Luther’s sanction for his bigamy.
Hence the writer of the letter seeks to convince him that the strength of the fiducial faith preached by himself, Luther, was so great, that no sense of sin need trouble a man.
In the older reprints the letter was erroneously put at a later date.
On Ferdinand’s reason for not seeking the Elector’s help, see Enders on the letter referred to, p.
A horizontal incision is made in the bark quite down to the wood, and from this a perpendicular slit is drawn upwards to the extent of perhaps an inch, so that the slit has a resemblance to the letter T, as at a.
He died on Tower Hill in 1572 for an example to the disloyal counties, protesting innocence and repentance, warning his children in a last letter to discredit all "false bruits" that he was a papist.
The vestibule should lead into a large waiting-hall with an inquiry office at its entrance, provided with a telephone exchange, private exchange box, also letter and parcel racks.
The difficulty a European has in acquiring an accurate pronunciation is not so much in producing the clicking sound singly as in following it immediately with another letter or syllable.
