" Barbara's heart beat, but she gave the boy a quarter and opened the envelope.

The fellow flashed a glance at her as he took the envelope.

* Bruce, alone, with trembling fingers tore open the envelope.

On returning from that first triumphant inspection of McGinty's diggings, the Colonel had been handed a sealed envelope without address.

The lawyer calmly unlocked the tin box and drew out the sealed yellow envelope which Miss Merrick had recently given him.

" Monk read and in silence passed this communication over to Phinuit, while Lanyard addressed the envelope.

Rapidly she lit her silver spirit-lamp and heated the water almost to boiling-point, and held the envelope of Stafford's letter over it until the gum was melted and the flap came open.

Would you mind taking this telegram to the War Department, through the park yonder?" He gave Jack an envelope and hurried back into the building as the two lads started with alacrity across the street.

He was greeting M. Pigot at the moment, and, after a word or two, produced from an inside pocket an official-looking envelope, tied with red tape and secured with an immense red seal.

"It doesn't look very mysterious," answered Billie, turning the envelope around and around in her hand and finally holding it up to the light to see if she could get any clew to its contents that way.

" I thanked him and placed the envelope upon the table.

Sharp found an envelope under the door.

Finally I locked the note-books, open as they were, in the writing-table drawer, and slipping the envelope into my pocket, set out for the Temple.

Then I laid the envelope with the note I had written where he could not help finding it at first or second glance.

" Across the study table Dan Dalzell received the envelope and its enclosure rather gingerly.

at the same time pulling the yellow envelope from his pocket and handing it to Ophelia.

Want me to take the plate back to Lee Chang?" He dashed back to the bunk house, returned the tin, and rejoined Betty, who was slowly slitting the envelope of her letter with a hairpin.

He looked the letter all over again, and examined the envelope idly.

he shouted, triumphantly waving the envelope over his head.

It was written, with incredible care, on one side of the paper only; it enclosed a fully stamped envelope for a reply or a return of the manuscript, and all day long Nancy, trembling between hope and despair, went about hugging her first secret to her heart.

The evening brought an envelope of fog again, and presently a light breeze came up from the north.

She picked up the square envelope between a finger and thumb and carefully read the inscription, "Miss Elizabeth De Graf, Cloverton, Ohio."

Here it is," and she thrust the envelope into my hand.

Also I saw some post-office stamps and stamped envelopes: I do not much admire the latter.

At that moment as he stood there, with the child beside him, one of the men of the gardens brought him an English letter, marked "instant." Cecil took it wearily, broke the envelope, and read a scrawled, miserable letter, blotted with hot tears, and scored out in impulsive misery.