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I remember we took the carriages from the Vladimirsky; they were very old, and painted blue, with round springs, and a wide box-seat, and bundles of hay inside; the brown, broken-winded horses that drew us along at a slow trot were each lame in a different leg.

The driver had vanished with his team into the shed; Masterton's fellow passenger on the box-seat, after a few whispered words to the landlord, also disappeared. "I see you've got Jake Poole with you," said one of the bar-room loungers to Masterton, indicating the passenger who had just left. "I reckon he's here on the same fool business." Masterton looked his surprise and mystification.

"Is that man going to marry the beautiful girl I saw on the box-seat of his coach the other day?" asked Joyselle, suddenly. "I daresay. His mother died last month and left him pots of money. Marmalade-pots Peet's Peerless." After a moment Carron pursued, drawing lines on the tablecloth with a fruitknife: "I have a very fine violin left me by my grandfather. It is a Strad, I believe.

Here Henry again mounted. Simplex and the driver also took their places on the box-seat. The horses shied at the gallows, and galloped off with the sledge as if they had broken loose altogether. The driver cried piteously, as if he were being led to execution. "Don't disturb yourself, countryman," cried Simplex consolingly, "at home the headsman is a great personage.

Before he reached the Piazza Colonna it began to rain. The coachmen took out enormous umbrellas, all rolled up, opened them and stood them in iron supports, in such a way that the box-seat was as it were under a campaign tent. Caesar took refuge in the entrance to a bazaar. The rain began to assume the proportions of a downpour.

"Whose house is that?" asked Gyuri, turning round. "The owner is on the box-seat beside you." "Really? Is it yours, Veronica?" She nodded her head. "There is a small farm belonging to it," said Father János modestly. "Well, we won't take it with us, but leave it here for your brother, shall we, Veronica?"

Yet the man who waved his hand from the box-seat of the phaeton with a courtesy seemingly real, but, under the circumstances, brutally ironical, was Thorndyke, and the woman who sat by his side was Berenice! The carriage passed on down the broad drive, and Matravers stood looking after it.

Vivian, who had much to tell and arrange about. I dare say a great many events had happened during our six months' absence from England; but the only thing I heard of was that Mr. Eastcliff had married his dancing-girl, that she had retired from the stage, and that her public appearances were now confined to the box-seat of a four-in-hand coach, which he drove from London to Brighton.

He went round to the coach office, at my request, and took the box-seat for me on the mail. In the evening I started, by that conveyance, down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes. 'Don't you think that, I asked the coachman, in the first stage out of London, 'a very remarkable sky? I don't remember to have seen one like it. 'Nor I not equal to it, he replied. 'That's wind, sir.

A clump on the side of his head, and the driver is sent endways from the box-seat; the cart gallops on to where the, rest of the gang lurk waiting for it; strong arms, long legs, and the monstrous deed is consummated. Her Majesty's bags have been stolen. Though so dark in this bedroom, there would be light enough out there.