Then, Mrs. Pendomer lifted the packet of letters lying on the bed, and cleared her throat.

and, casting aside the ridiculous gauntlet, she caught up the packet of papers which lay within.

" "No, there was a packet of letters in it.

My admiration of her patience and pleasure in her success deeply gratified her; and it was a full reward for all her trouble when I suggested that she should send to her sister Zevle a small packet of each of the seeds with which she had succeeded.

As Patsy peered in at the man West was engaged in deliberately examining packet after packet of papers, evidently striving to find the missing stock certificates.

He had been silent for some time, and was meditatively sorting and looking through a packet of small photographs in his pocket-book.

"It must be now or never!" Kneeling beside the sleeping man, he felt for the packet of precious stones they had that day obtained.

My dear Wilson,I have not opened a packet of unknown contents for many years, that gave me so much pleasure as when I disclosed your three volumes.

At this moment I receive your packet of poems, and Shee's letter.

We carried with us a United States Government mail pouch, a packet of mail from Dr. Henry van Dyke, at The Hague, addressed to Brand Whitlock, the American Minister at Brussels, and another packet of mail from Henry W. Diederick, United States Consul-General at Antwerp.

After the coffin was lowered into the grave, one of the attendants advanced to the upper part of it, and opened the small packet of rice, on which he placed a sort of compass.

UCTION About three months agothat is to say, toward the end of May of this year of 1900the writer whose name appears on the title-page received as noteworthy a letter, and packet of papers, as it has been his lot to examine.

In this drawer lay a packet of letters tied with a ribbon.

I found a large packet of letters which I instantly destroyed.

I have seen many an excellent matron who could never in her best days have been handsome, and yet she had a packet of yellow love-letters in a private drawer, and sweet children showered kisses on her sallow cheeks.

" Late one evening, a packet of letters, just arrived by the English mail, was handed to Mynheer Von Kapell, a merchant of Hamburgh.

The most interesting contents of the jewel-case consisted of a small packet of letters written by Percival Nowell to Lucy Geoffry before their marriage.

Packet of letters.

MacKinlay Kantor (A); 19Oct59; R244279. Packet of death.

In the pocket of each was found a little packet of pills.

With measureless cruelty Martha began by sending the less important documents, still signed with her mistress' maiden name; then two or three letters from the series of the most recent times, and finally there came a whole packet of those sent by the general's wife to the tutor, in the first year of her marriage with the general, before Borisoff had met Anna.

They gave me a packet of ten boxes.

Mechanically he took the packet of papers from the Quakeress's hand and after an instant's hesitation, and in response to an appealing look from Richard, he broke the string which held the documents together and perused them one by one.

"No," said I. "Why?" She stepped over to the Fewkes wagon and brought back a small packet of saleratus, a part of which she stirred into the batter.

All he says is falsethe book he has just read, the play he is writing, the woman who loves him,...he buys a packet of bonbons in the streets and eats them, and it is false.