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The wishes of the people caught the heart of the Emperor Matthias, who to reward Taxis for his public spirit, gave him the office of Post-master, and assigned it to his descendants for ever. In England Posts appear to have been established as early as the reign of Edward III.; but the records of them handed down to us are obscure and uncertain.
So I go to the Post-office, and knock at the shutter, and I say to the Post-master, "Will YOU come and be idle with me?"
Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, was named for the office of Vice-President. He had served two terms in the United States Senate, had declined the office of Post-Master General under President Cleveland, was very wealthy, and noted for his philanthropy.
"Fortunately for him," he writes in his Memoirs, after the atrocities committed on these august victims, "fortunately for him, their arrest was not owing to his orders, but to the accident of being recognised by a post-master, and to their ill arrangements." Thus the citizen ordered that which the man trembled to see fulfilled; and tardy sensibility protested against patriotism.
He was supposed to be thrice a millionaire; but he never transacted business with others, and thought only of grinding his wheat and keeping a monopoly of it; his most noticeable point was a total absence of politeness and good manners. The elder Guerbet, brother of the post-master at Conches, possessed an income of ten thousand francs, besides his salary as collector.
For he had been a lover once, and Sandy's romance stirred dead leaves in his heart that sent up a faint perfume of memory. "Yes," he mused half aloud; "I marked that one too: "Be it bliss to remember that thou wert the star That arose on his darkness and guided him home." By all laws of mercy the post-master in a small town should be old and mentally near-sighted. Jimmy Reed was young and curious.
He continued to discharge his new duties without resigning his medical appointment, and managed to combine with both the offices of pay-master and post-master of the troops.
Amabel, in her best Italian, strove hard to explain the difference between the captain and Sir Guy, the Cavaliere Guido, as she translated him, who stood by looking much amused by the perplexities of his lady's construing; while the post-master, though very polite and sorry for the Signora's disappointment, stuck to the address being Morville, poste restante.
No, sir, no, continued he, slowly and thoughtfully, dropping the silver to half-minute time; 'no, sir, no; if I might make free with a gen'leman o' your helegance, continued he, after a pause, I'd say, sell 'im to a post-master or a buss-master, or some sich cattle as those, but I doesn't think I'd put 'im into the 'ands of no gen'leman, that's to say if I were you, at least, added he.
* the famous post-master, Drouet, who, in the tribune at the Convention, declared himself a "brigand," * Javogues, the robber of Montbrison and the "Nero of Ain," * the drunkard Casset, formerly a silk-worker and later the pasha of Thionville, * Bertrand, the friend of Charlier, the ex-mayor and executioner of Lyons, * Darthe, ex-secretary of Lebon and the executioner at Arras,
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