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The late post on Monday (the eventful Monday it was -- for we have / retrograded twenty-four hours in our story in order to recount what / happened on that Sabbath afternoon at the Paddocks -- the eventful Monday / it was which Honor spent with Arthur Vavasour on horseback first, and / afterwards in that feverishly enjoyable Richmond dinner), the second / post, brought no letter from the truant, and John's brow grew ominously / dark as he turned over his numerous business-like-looking epistles, and / amongst them found no dainty missive in a fair running hand, and adorned / with an entwined H. B. in mingled shades of brown and blue, by way of / monogram.
"There now! What did I tell you? " exclaimed his mother triumphantly. "I / was as sure as sure could be, she wouldn't write. Guilty consciences / never do. And another time, my dear, I hope you'll attend to your / mother, old as she is, and act accordingly."