She was as usual disentangling her eyeglasses, which had got caught in her lace tie. "Sit down, Miss Meadows," she said very kindly. And then she picked up a pink envelope from the blotting-pad. "I sent for you just now because this telegram has come for you." "A telegram for me, Miss Wyatt?" Basil! He had committed suicide, decided Miss Meadows. Her hand flew out, but Miss Wyatt held the telegram back a moment. "I hope it's not bad news," she said, so more than kindly. And Miss Meadows tore it open.英文原著 · 《The Garden Party》
I only want--oh, you know what I want. Why don't you open your telegram?'
I had been folding and fingering the brown envelope as if it had been a scrap of waste paper. 'It is probably from Mrs. Watkins about the victoria,' I said, feeling its profound irrelevance. 'I wired an offer to her in Bombay. However'--and I read the telegram, the little solving telegram from Army Headquarters. I turned my back on her to read it again, and then I replaced it very carefully and put it in my pocket. It was a moment to take hold of with both hands, crying on all one's gods for steadiness.英文原著 · 《The Pool in the Desert》
"But just as I was preparing to go to Havre, they brought me a telegram. I screamed at it, and put up my hands. I said 'No, no;' I would not read it, to be told my mother was dead. I would have her a few minutes longer. Cornelia read it, and said it was from her. I fell on it, and kissed it. The blessed telegram told she was coming home. I was to go to London and wait for her.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
The days passed restfully in that hidden valley. The great white mountains closed her in. They seemed so strong and clean. It was on the morning they were leaving that a telegram was put into her hands. Phillips was ill at lodgings in Folkestone. She hoped that Joan, on her way back, would come to see her. She showed the telegram to her father. "Do you mind, Dad, if we go straight back?" she asked.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
In her small experience, a telegram was associated with the communication of bad news. She conquered her hesitation--opened it--read it. The color left her face: she shuddered. The telegram dropped on the grass. "Read it," she said, faintly, as Alban picked it up. He read these words: "Come to London directly. Miss Letitia is dangerously ill."
"Your aunt?" he asked. "Yes--my aunt."
BOOK THE SECOND--IN LONDON.英文原著 · 《I SAY NO》
Clemens, in Hartford:
NEW YORK, Mar. 4, 1885. To MRS. CLEMENS, We were at General Grant's at noon and a telegram arrived that the last act of the expiring congress late this morning retired him with full General's rank and accompanying emoluments. The effect upon him was like raising the dead. We were present when the telegram was put in his hand. CLEMENS. Something has been mentioned before of Mark Twain's investments and the generally unprofitable habit of them.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 3》