Simply flying.
But here--here is more news.

Guess what--it's for you.

I've just come from the post office, and they said there was an English letter for you, so I brought it." He handed it over.

She laid it in her lap and waited as though for him to go.
"Can't I hear how he is?
He's the best man that ever crossed my path," he said.
"It happens to be in his wife's, not his, handwriting--did ever such a scrap of a woman write so sprawling a hand!" she replied, holding the letter up.
"But she'll let us know in the letter how Crozier is, won't she ?" Kitty had now recovered herself, and slowly she opened the envelope and took out the letter.

As she did so something fluttered to the ground.
Jesse Bulrush picked it up.