If you remember your Latin, you will know that reticule comes from _reticulus,_ a net.

But this isn't really a net.
"We have had a big excitement.

Some one set fire to the parsonage and it burnt down." [He did not tell her who set it on fire, although he knew very well that it was Peter Lamb.] "Lamb has run away, and I think we are well rid of him.
"I do miss you very much.

Mr.Rivers says you will be a fashionable young lady when you come back and will never snowball any more.

I don't believe it.
"Yours truly, "JOHN PENHALLOW." Mrs.Penhallow enclosed the letter in one of her own, and no answer came until she gave him a note at the end of October.