1 Say, partner, go to the post office and mail a letter, and tell the postmaster to frank it.
2 At the Torzhok post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster would not supply them.
3 The postmaster, his wife, the valet, and a peasant woman selling Torzhok embroidery came into the room offering their services.
4 The postmaster came in and began obsequiously to beg his excellency to wait only two hours, when, come what might, he would let his excellency have the courier horses.
5 "I make bold to ask your excellency to move a little for this gentleman," said the postmaster, entering the room followed by another traveler, also detained for lack of horses.
6 The traveler was Joseph Alexeevich Bazdeev, as Pierre saw from the postmaster's book.
7 Country neighbors from Otradnoe, impoverished old squires and their daughters, Peronskaya a maid of honor, Pierre Bezukhov, and the son of their district postmaster who had obtained a post in Petersburg.
8 A man becomes farmer, grocer, town policeman, garageman, restaurant-owner, postmaster, insurance-agent, and farmer all over again, and the community more or less patiently suffers from his lack of knowledge in each of his experiments.
9 At four o'clock Mr. Bushy, the postmaster, with another neighbour who lived east of us, stopped in to get warm.
10 I had never heard the postmaster say anything but 'Only papers, to-day,' or, 'I've got a sackful of mail for ye,' until this afternoon.
11 The postmaster, going home, stopped to say that grandfather would bring the coroner back with him to spend the night.
12 They came on horseback, all except the postmaster, who brought his family in a wagon over the only broken wagon-trail.
13 Very good, we will send a second wire to the postmaster, Grimpen: 'Telegram to Mr. Barrymore to be delivered into his own hand.'
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 5. Three Broken Threads 14 The postmaster, who was also the village grocer, had a clear recollection of the telegram.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 15 "Well, surely his own wife ought to know where he is," said the postmaster testily.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House