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There were few families in the wide middle class who did not feel the cost of postage a heavy item ia their expenditure; and if the young people sent letters home only once a fortnight, the amount at the year's end was a rather serious matter. But it was the vast multitudes of the lower orders who suffered like the crusading families of old, and the geographical discoverers of all times. When once their families parted off from home it was a separa- tion almost like that of death. The hundreds ...of thousands of apprentices, of shopmen, of governesses, of domestic servants, were cut off from family rela- tions as if seas or deserts lay between them and home. If the shilling for each letter cotdd be saved by the economy of weeks or months at first, the rarity of correspondence went on to increase the rarity; new interests hastened the dying out of old ones; and the ancient domestic affections were but too apt to wither away, till the wish for intercourse was gone. The young girl could not ease her heai't PENNY POSTAGE.
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