The tender-fingered clerks could detect an enclosure, however skilfully folded.

Few people grudged double postage in those days.

Now one letter is so much like another, that nothing short of opening them makes one any wiser.

Mr.Sponge received Mr.Waffles' answer from the hands of the waiter with the sort of feeling that it was only the continuation of their correspondence.

Judge, then, of his delight, when a nice, clean, crisp promissory note, on a five-shilling stamp, fell quivering to the floor.