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She gave him her hand through the carriage-window, and, for a moment, he held it, to all appearance quite calm, as he looked down at the lovely face the flare of an adjacent gaslight revealed to him against a background of shadow. "Good-bye," he said, and then released it. "Drive on," he called to the coachman, and in a moment more, he stood alone watching the carriage turn the corner. "Mr.
And, will you believe it, when I discovered one of them at last, it was not by my eyes, but by his, for he spotted me at the very top of Wardour Street, and, coming across the road, he slapped me on the shoulder, just as though I had been his only brother let loose on society for the especial purpose of shaking him by the hand. "Why," says he, "I guess it's the coachman."
George. "I am glad you had sense enough to take a commissioner. Whenever you get into any difficulty whatever in a European town, go right to a commissioner, and he will help you out." So Rollo paid the coachman and the commissioner, and then he and Charles went into the hotel. The grandest of all the ruins in Rome, and perhaps, indeed, of all the ruins in the world, is the Coliseum.
General Boswell's coachman was a Scot; a grim, taciturn, brickdust-coloured fellow, who had been in his present service for a quarter of a century. He had been bred amongst horses from his boyhood, for his father had been a horsebreaker, and when he had run away from home and enlisted, he had satisfied ambition by becoming a driver of artillery.
And Mary, of course, didn't visit her father because a dutiful wife always agrees with her husband! A sentiment which places Old Chester chronologically. The day that Mr. Smith bestowed the quarter upon his grandson he spoke of his daughter's "dutifulness" to Miss Lydia. Driving toward his house, he overtook two trudging figures, passed them by a rod or two, then called to the coachman to stop.
"I didn't say anything of which I am ashamed," he said, sharply, raising his head. His mother looked at him in silence. Their eyes met in a flash of strange antagonism as though each accused the other. A sound behind them made Lady Lucy turn round. Brown was coming over the grass. "A telegram, sir, for you. Your coachman stopped the boy and sent him here." Marsham opened it hastily.
"He discharged his coachman for wearing white gloves instead of brown," said Stracey. "'What do you mean, sir, cried he, 'with your d d showy vulgarities? don't you see me toiling my soul out to be plain and quiet, and you must spoil all, by not being brown enough!" "Ah, Godolphin, you seem pensive," whispered Fanny; "yet we are tolerably amusing, too."
At the door of another hotel, there was another passenger to be taken up. 'Any room, sir? cries the new passenger to the coachman. 'Well, there's room enough, replies the coachman, without getting down, or even looking at him. 'There an't no room at all, sir, bawls a gentleman inside.
"What's that block you're speaking of, just out of Monmouth?" enquired Wilfrid; and it being described to him, together with the exact bearings of the road and situation of the mass of stone, he at once repeated a part of what he had heard in the form of the emphatic interrogation, "What! there?" and flatly told the coachman that the stone had been moved.
Half-way down the avenue, however, I thrust my stick from the window of the rattle-trap vehicle and stopped the coachman. "I have forgotten something," I curtly said. "You needn't go back; wait here, and I'll return again in a few moments."
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