He opened his desk and took out a small packet of papers, some of which he read listlessly.

"Here is the message from M. de Saint-Pierre," concluded Washington, drawing a sealed packet from an inner pocket.

The colonel handed him a small packet of letters.

"My dear Lester," he said, "he knew that the game was up the instant he opened the first packet.

' 'TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. 'DEAR SIR, 'Presently after I had sent away my last letter, I received your kind medical packet.

" Hesitatingly my uncle produced a packet that crackled pleasantly.

He sought in the pockets of the coat he carried slung across his shoulder and brought out a packet of food.

On the evening of Saturday the 8th, after the post-mortem, Mrs. Hensman and another woman found between the mattress and the bed a packet of papers.

"I 'lowed you might get lost," bantered the young fellow, not offering to carry the packet as they trudged away side by side.

I immediately held up the packet, and soon afterwards a cord was let down from the same lattice to the ground.

The Lord du Lude, who lay without the Plessis, had the first news of the arrival of the courier, with the letters concerning the battle of Nancy; he commanded the courier to deliver him the packet, and as he was a great favorite of the King's he durst not refuse him.

I wrote a few lines in the cab, and sent off the packet, registered, in time I hoped, to catch the postbut after all, it didn't.

If you are, as they complain, absolutely faultless, you will enjoy with me the pleasure of the girls in plaguing one after another all the traders of Altasfe:" and with these words I placed in her hands a packet of the thin metallic plates constituting their currency.

"All the formalities about the seals, that we observed when poor Monday gave us the packet, would seem to be unnecessary," he remarked, while thus occupied, "and it will probably be sufficient if I leave the secretary in your room, and keep the keys myself.

The substance of the Negro's answer was, 'Why, sir, you sent me to the town to buy a packet of sugar and a packet of salt; and coming back it rained so hard, the packets burst, and the salt was all washed into the sugar.

After describing the dot-and-dash alphabet, he says: "This conventional alphabet was originated on board the packet Sully by Professor Morse, the very first elements of the invention, and arose from the necessity of the case; the motion produced by the magnet being limited to a single action.

Anderson's big hand shot out to clutch Nash, holding him powerless, and with the other hand he searched Nash's inside coat pockets, to tear forth a packet of letters.

He caught his breath in wonder at the notion of such a jest, remembering a little packet of letters hidden in his desk.

From the day after their arrival in New-York, or that on which the account of the arrests by the English cruiser had appeared in the journals, little had been said by any of our party concerning Paul Powis, or of the extraordinary manner in which he had left the packet, at the very moment she was about to enter her haven.

" A policeman entered, laid a packet upon the table before us, and announced that the prisoner had been placed in cell No. 2.

My father, examining the packet with a minute care, waved his request aside.

She began to untie the packet and turned to the light (all the windows were closed in spite of the heat).

DEAR GODSON: Burn the packet I gave you, burn without opening or looking at it, so that you may not know the contents.

" The Father went to the writing-table, where he tied up and sealed the packet.

" Out of curiosity I reached inside his vest and pulled out both packets.