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"Tell it and be dd," said I, wearied by the incorrigible pertinacity with which the villain assailed me. My most unexpected energy threw the whole table into a roar, at the conclusion of which Fin began his narrative of the mail-coach adventure.
So it is also with these sentences from De Quincey's "The English Mail-Coach": "The sea, the atmosphere, the light, bore each an orchestral part in this universal lull.
The modern modes of travelling cannot compare with the old mail-coach system in grandeur and power.
Marsden was one of the few villages of our populous country yet left remote from any line of railway. The chief events of its quiet days were the morning and evening arrivals and departures of the mail-coach, whose driver still retained the almost obsolete custom of blowing a horn to signal his approach.
Be that as it might, one thing was clear, the whole estates of the family could not possibly pay one fourth of the debt; and the only question was one which occasionally arises at a scanty dinner on a mail-coach road, who was to be the lucky individual to carve the joint, where so many were sure to go off hungry?
The mail-coach had been plundered and burned, while everywhere, north, east, and west, as it was stated, the rebels were in open insurrection, all communication with Dublin was cut off, and any attempt to reach the metropolis would have been only an act of madness. Another express from the south came in. Matters there were even worse.
Three key-bugles, an old French horn, and a tin trumpet of a mail-coach guard, were sounded at intervals in every quarter of the town, while the men were marshalled, and made to march hither and thither in detached bodies, as if all were busily engaged in making preparations for a formidable defence.
Doran that won't see me rantinized in a mail-coach, and mocked and made little of whereof I have a strong back, as you'll soon find, and a faction that will make you sup sorrow yet."
Now began the distinction of inside and outside passengers, equivalent to first and second class, paying different fares. The competition with each other upon the railway, and with the ordinary stagecoaches upon the road, soon brought up the speed, which was increased to ten miles an hour—the mail-coach rate of travelling in those days, and considered very fast. Mr.
A heap o' pains I took that I micht never hae to say I dinna ken to sic a gleg-ee'd cratur as that. And ilka day she cam to read wi' me, and we jist got on like a mail-coach at least I did only the wrang road. An' she cam aye i' the efternoon and bade till the gloamin' cam doon an' it grew ower mirk to ken the words frae ane anither. And syne she wad gang and dress hersel' for denner, as she said.
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