Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes. Ella Cheever Thayer
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- Издательство: Ingram(2020)
- ISBN: 9781456614508
- Язык: Английский
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Just a noise, that is all.<br><br>But a very significant noise to Miss Nathalie Rogers, or Nattie, as she was usually abbreviated; a noise that caused her to lay aside her book, and jump up hastily, exclaiming, with a gesture of impatience:&mdash;<br><br>&quot;Somebody always &#39;calls&#39; me in the middle of every entertaining chapter!&quot;<br><br>For that noise, that little clatter, like, and yet too irregular to be the ticking of a clock, expressed to Nattie these four mystic letters:&mdash;<br><br>&quot;B m&mdash;X n;&quot;<br><br>which same four mystic letters, interpreted, meant that the name, or, to use the technical word, &quot;call,&quot; of the telegraph office over which she was present sole presiding genius, was &quot;B m,&quot; and that &quot;B m&quot; was wanted by another office on the wire, designated as &quot;X n.&quot;<br><br>A little, out-of-the-way, country office, some fifty miles down the line, was &quot;X n,&quot; and, as Nattie signaled in reply to the &quot;call&quot; her readiness to receive any communications therefrom, …