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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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Three
months
passed,
and
as
yet
no
acknowledgment
for
the
money
came
to
hand.
This
to
Goraud,
after
the
sacrifice
he
had
made,
was
sadly
disappointing;
but
he
did
not
at
first
feel
alarmed.
The
idea
occurred
to
him
that
his
mother
might
be
a
trifle
worse,
or
that
something
might
have
delayed
the
reply.
He
decided
to
write
again.
He
related
what
he
had
done,
explained
the
cause
he
had
for
uneasiness,
and
begged
that
an
early
answer
might
be
sent
to
him.
This
was
not
long
in
coming.
It
stated
that
the
old
mother
was
again
well,
that
the
brother
had
had
a
hard
struggle,
and
that
though
he
hoped
to
pull
through,
it
might
prove
necessary
for
him
to
quit
the
place.
In
regard
to
the
alleged
remittance,
it
was
briefly
added
that
no
money
had
been
received.
This
latter
statement
created
a
most
painful
impression
upon
the
soldier.
His
brother's
letter
appeared
to
breathe
a
tone
which
was
not
usual;
he
imagined
that,
under
the
guise
of
calculated
frigidity,
was
to
be
perceived
an
insinuation
that
no
money
had
been
sent:
and,
smarting
under
the
sting
of
such
reflections,
the
blush
of
offended
virtue
rose
to
his
cheek.
His
feelings
ran
over
the
whole
gamut
of
wounded
sentiment.
He
saw
himself
an
injured
man,
and
felt
deeply
hurt;
his
money
had
gone
unacknowledged,
and
he
became
roused
to
anger;
and
then,
revolving
the
whole
circumstances
in
his
mind,
suspicion
took
possession
of
him.
Recollecting
that
the
money-letter
had
been
sent
as
an
ordinary
letter
by
post,
and
that
the
reply
had
not
seemed
quite
right,
he
now
suspected
that
his
brother
had
received
the
remittance,
appropriated
it
to
his
own
use,
and
denied
the
receipt
of
his
letter.
In
this
frame
of
mind,
he
had
a
communication
penned
to
his
brother
full
of
denunciations
and
reproaches,
and
couched
in
such
terms
of
violence,
that
he
would
not
allow
the
epistle
when
written
to
be
read
over
to
him.
Next
day
he
started
with
a
distant
expedition
on
active
service.
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