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It was a pleasure to him to watch the lad driving up the High Street, perched aloft on the box-seat of the tilbury, whip in hand, and a rose in his button-hole, handsome, well turned out, envied by every one.
If a man cannot rule, he ought not to marry, for his wife will play the fool in some fashion or other like a runaway horse, and he has half the blame. Why did he take the box-seat?" and Kate nodded to the fire. "What are you laughing at?" "Perhaps I ought to be shocked, but the thought of any one trying to rule you, Kit, tickles me immensely.
I started my engine, mounted my box-seat, and without a word to either of them drove straight away to Brignoles thence, without a question from any one, to Paris and my master. It would have been three months afterwards that I received a letter from Madame, addressed from the yacht Mostar, then in Norwegian waters.
A mile or so out of Ballarat, he was met by a body of supporters headed by a brass band, and escorted in triumph to the George Hotel. Here, the horses having been led away, John at once took the field by mounting the box-seat of the coach and addressing the crowd of idlers that had gathered round to watch the arrival.
When he ran in for five minutes of a morning, he eschewed the front entrance and took up his perch on the kitchen-table. From here, while Polly cooked and he nibbled half-baked pastry, the two of them followed the progress of events in the parlour. And though Zara would not nowadays go the length of walking out with a dissenter she preferred on her airings to occupy the box-seat of Mr.
"Is the box-seat engaged?" asked another. "Yes, sir; Mr. Jorrocks has taken it." "It's engaged already." "Who by?" "Mr. Jorrocks"; and so they went on to the tune of near a dozen. Presently a rattling of pole chains was heard, and a cry was raised of "Here's Sir Wincent!"
The coach had drawn up in front of the inn door. We three my Captain, the girl, and myself ran across the hall and out on the portico. There was the usual crowd about the newly arrived coach; but there was only one person in the crowd for whom we looked, and him we soon found. A lithe figure in a buff travelling coat swung off the box-seat, and Lancelot was with us again.
They looked long at each other, and then he turned away his head and began to walk up and down again. At Tilliedrum the coffin was put into a hearse and thus conveyed to Monypenny, Aaron and the two children sitting on the box-seat.
The shouts dimly heard at the monastery had the effect they were intended to create, for the monk could see the carters and muleteers draw aside to let the living avalanche go past. There were but two men on the box-seat of the diligencia the driver and a passenger seated by his side.
"You will see," said nonentity number one, in her friend's ear; "you will see that Nevill girl will go back in some man's brougham that is what she has been waiting for; otherwise, she would have perched herself up on the box-seat of the coach, in the most conspicuous place she could find." "What a disgraceful creature she must be!" is the indignantly virtuous reply.
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