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In three days they would get my letter and hear all about my adventures ; so as I wrote I almost sang aloud ; I was so happy at the thought of my sorrows being ended . Mrs Dick -LRB- I never learned her real name till some years afterwards -RRB- brought me some bread and cheese at midday . As I ate , she sealed and addressed my letter for me , and took it over to the post-house , so that the postman could carry it to meet the mail , as it drove past from Rye towards London . After my midday meal I felt strangely weary ; perhaps all my excitements had been too much for me . When Mrs Dick came back to say that she had posted my letter I was almost asleep ; but her manner was so strange that it roused me . She could hardly speak from anxiety and terror . `` Oh , '' she cried , `` they have raised the whole country .