That had been a square sheet, which even if folded would fail to enter this long and narrow envelope.

The interest which I had felt when I thought the two identical was a false interest.

Yet I could not but believe that this scrap had a value of its own equal to the one with which, under this misapprehension, I had invested it.
Carrying it back to Mrs.Packard, I handed it over with the remark that I had found it lying in the hall.

She cast a quick look at it, gave me another look and tossed the paper into the grate.

As it caught fire and flared up, the characters started vividly into view.
This second glimpse of them, added to the one already given me, fixed the whole indelibly in my mind.