"Postmistress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with her uncle; from the agent's house the news that a lunatic called Neumann was staying there with his niece; and about supper-time, while it was still wondering at this sudden influx of related Germans, came the postmistress and said that the boy from Baker's who fetched the letters knew nothing whatever of any one called Schultz. He had, said the postmistress, grown quite angry and forgotten the greater and by far the better part of his manners when she asked him ...
— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim
... the old court-house bell up the hill struck six, the postmistress hurriedly opened her door and stood anxiously peering up the street, the loafers who had been dozing on the saloon benches shuffled out and leaned up against the posts, the old piano in the Miners' Home began to rattle and a squeaky ...
— The Transformation of Job - A Tale of the High Sierras • Frederick Vining Fisher
... de Longueval, played the little harmonium given by the Marquise. Now the poor harmonium, reduced to silence, no longer accompanied the voices of the choir or the children's hymns. Mademoiselle Marbeau, the postmistress, would, with all her heart, have taken the place of Mademoiselle Hebert, but she dared not, though she was a little musical! She was afraid of being remarked as of the clerical party, and denounced by the Mayor, who was a Freethinker. That might ...
— L'Abbe Constantin, Complete • Ludovic Halevy
... is gone," the postmistress told him, "and you can't get up till day after to-morrow. You might reach Meeker by using the ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland
... had a cottage about half a mile along the road, and she combined the office of postmistress with that of universal provider. Sally came out of the hut, turning ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... post-office, which was the front room of a small wooden house approached by a high flight of steps, was the postmistress, Miss Harriet Corvey, who sat on the floor in one corner, while before her extended a semicircle of men and boys. In this little assemblage certain elderly men occupied seats which were considered to belong to them quite as much as if ...
— The Late Mrs. Null • Frank Richard Stockton |
