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She dressed swiftly, feverishly, and, calling a closed carriage from the coach-house, ordered herself to be driven to the New Arts Building. She would show this rosy cat of a woman, this smiling piece of impertinence, this she-devil, whether she would lure Cowperwood away. She meditated as she rode. She would not sit back and be robbed as Mrs. Cowperwood had been by her. Never!
The eye which presided there must have been an unoccupied, ferreting eye; minutely careful, less from nature than for want of something to do. An old maid, forced to employ her vacant days, could alone see to the grass being hoed from between the paving stones, the tops of the walls kept clean, the broom continually going, and the leather curtains of the coach-house always closed.
It was a very grey, sad face he showed when he rose gently and bade Finn go into the coach-house and be silent. He had known that Tara's heart was weak, but this thing that had happened he had never anticipated, and the nature and circumstances of Tara's death were such as to move a man deeply. In a sense, her love of the Master had killed this beautiful hound.
But, on the other hand, they all missed their freedom dreadfully their freedom of speech and act, their freedom in getting up and going to bed, in their goings and comings; for Aunt Pike believed, quite rightly, of course, in punctuality and early rising, and keeping oneself profitably employed, and she disapproved strongly of their roaming the country over, as they had done, as strongly as she disapproved of their sitting on garden walls, wandering in and out of stables, coach-house, and kitchen, talking to the servants, or teasing Jabez.
A good, well-established, old-fashioned rheumatis' I say nothing of your new-fangled diseases, like the cholera, and varioloid, and animal magnitudes but a good old-fashioned rheumatis', such as people used to have when I was a boy, is as certain a barometer as that which is at this moment hanging up in the coach-house here, within two fathoms of the very spot where we are standing.
Will you tell me how Craig escaped from the coach-house in order to carry out this abduction all within a few minutes, mind, of his having been left there? Will you tell me that, Mr. Sanford Quest?" the Professor concluded, with a note of triumph in his tone. "That's one of the troubles we are up against," Quest admitted. "We have to remember this, though.
He had done this seventeen times and was deeply engrossed in the thought of reaching fifty, when he heard a sharp whistle from the big coach-house door. The farm pupil stood there beckoning him. Pelle, crestfallen, obeyed the call, bitterly regretting his thoughtlessness. He was most likely wanted now to grease boots again, perhaps for them all. The pupil drew him inside the door, which he shut.
The general entered the coach-house followed by his officers. "Let me pull it a little forward, your excellency," said the servant, "it is rather dark here." "That will do." The general and his officers walked around the calash, carefully inspecting the wheels and springs. "There is nothing remarkable about it," said the general; "it is a very ordinary calash."
In a week I shall have delivered to me the new motor I have designed, and then the Pirate had better look out. Good night." Waving an adieu, he set his car in motion, and jogged along until he reached the door of his coach-house. We watched him dismount, unlock the door, and disappear inside. "It beats me," remarked Forrest. "Surely you do not still harbour any suspicion concerning him?"
Then Lafayette rode up to say he would clear the way with cannon, if the king would order it. The king was not a person to give any order at all; and least of all, such an order as that. So the royal family alighted, and returned into the palace, while the coach went back to the coach-house, and the eight black horses to their stalls. The king and queen were not sorry for what had happened.
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