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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
257
Among
the
letter-boxes,
scenes
somewhat
similar
have
been
enacted.
Letters
of
every
shape
and
colour,
and
of
all
weights
have
unceasingly
poured
in;
tidings
of
life
and
death,
hope
and
despair,
success
and
failure,
triumph
and
defeat,
joy
and
sorrow;
letters
from
friends
and
notes
from
lawyers,
appeals
from
children
and
stern
advice
from
parents,
offers
from
anxious-hearted
young
gentlemen,
and
"first
yesses"
or
refusals
from
young
maidens;
letters
containing
that
snug
appointment
so
long
promised
you,
and
"little
bills"
with
requests
for
immediate
payment,
"together
with
six-and-eightpence;"
cream-coloured
missives
telling
of
happy
consummations,
and
black-edged
envelopes
telling
of
death
and
the
grave;
sober-looking
advice
notes,
doubtless
telling
when
"our
Mr.
Puffwell"
would
do
himself
the
honour
of
calling
on
you,
and
elegant-looking
billets
in
which
business
is
never
mentioned,
all
jostled
each
other
for
a
short
time;
but
the
stream
of
gladness
and
of
woe
was
stopped,
at
least
for
one
night,
when
the
last
stroke
of
six
was
heard.
The
Post-Office,
like
a
huge
monster,
to
which
one
writer
has
likened
it,
has
swallowed
an
enormous
meal,
and
gorged
to
the
full,
it
must
now
commence
the
process
of
digestion.
While
laggard
boys,
to
whom
cartoons
by
one
"William
Hogarth"
should
be
shown,
are
muttering
"too
late,"
and
retiring
discomfited,
we,
having
obtained
the
requisite
"open
sesame,"
will
make
our
way
to
the
interior
of
the
building.
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