 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...you will please to send two or three hundred pound bank-notes the next day by tho feuny post. Excrt not your curiosity too early ; it is in your power...on certain terms. I have friends who are faithful, hut they do not bark before they bite. — " I am, £c., F." The duke, determining if possible to unveil... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - London (England) - 1868 - 564 pages
...abode, and according to which directions you will please to send two or three hundred-pound bank-notes the next day by the penny post. " Exert not your curiosity...terms. I have friends who are faithful, but they do not bark before they bite. — I am, &c. F." A man of the cold Wellington stamp would have treated such... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1901 - 524 pages
...directions you will please to send two or three hundred pound bank-notes the next day by the penny-post. Exert not your curiosity too early ; it is in your...; I have friends who are faithful, but they do not bark before they bite. " I am, etc., F ." The duke, at the appointed hour, did not fail to make his... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1901 - 528 pages
...directions you will please to send two or three hundred pound bank-notes the next day by the penny-post. Exert not your curiosity too early ; it is in your...terms; I have friends who are faithful, but they do not bark before they bite. " I am, etc., F ." The duke, at the appointed hour, did not fail to make his... | |
 | Harry Lushington Stephen - Trials - 1902 - 308 pages
...abode; according to which directions you will please to send two or three hundred pound bank-notes the next day by the penny post. Exert not your curiosity...terms. I have friends who are faithful, but they do not bark before they bite.—I am, etc., etc. <F.' It was obvious that the writer of this letter was aware... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - Law - 1913 - 1226 pages
...directions you will please to send two or three hundred-pound Bank notes the next day by the penny-post. Exert not your curiosity too early ; it is in your...I have friends who are faithful ; but they do not bark before they bite. I am, &c. &c. F." Q. What did your grace do upon the receipt of this second... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1804 - 528 pages
...send two or three hundred pound bank-notes the next day by the penny-post. Exert not your curiositv too early : it is in your power to make me grateful...terms. I have friends who are faithful, but they do not bark beforo they bite. I am, Sec. F." The duke, determining, if possible, to unveil this mystery, repaired... | |
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... out the person whom you will address, by asking his company to take a turn or two with you. You will not fail, on inquiry, to be acquainted with the name and place of abode. According to which direction you will please to send two or three hundred... 
