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My gentleman, treading the white highway across the solitary heaths, that swell far and wide to the moon, is, by the postillion, who has seen him, pronounced no sham. Nor do I think the opinion of any man worthless, who has had the postillion's authority for speaking. But it is, I am told, a finer test to embellish much gentleman-apparel, than to walk with dignity totally unadorned.
"Yes, the tall man who looked as if he should have been a scholar and had twisted himself all awry into a soldier. You must have passed him in the hall." Whittington stared at her. Then he burst again into a laugh. "Your postillion, was he? That's the oddest thing," and he lowered his voice. "Your postillion was Mr.
"At two full leagues from Tournus," replied the postillion, spitting blood, "and at least four leagues from Macon." And, extending his arm towards the smoking chimney: "Up there, that village ought to be Vallars, but it's not up to much." "Blast you!" roared M. d'Anquetil. While the horses struggled we went near the carriage, which was lying sadly on its side.
Whereupon I again turned my back on the heights of the Erzgebirge, and was travelling by special coach in the direction of Tharand, when I too was overcome with sleep, and was only awakened by violent shouts and the sound of some one holding a parley with the postillion.
Thinking him extremely rude I turned my back and went downstairs, arriving just in time to prevent the postillion taking out the horses. I promised him a double gratuity if he would take me to some village at hand, where he could bait his horses while I breakfasted. Just as the postillion had got on horseback a servant came running up.
'There is room for you, Mr. Weyburn, said Aminta. Mrs. Pagnell puffed. 'I can't think we've room, my dear. I want that bit of seat in front for my feet. Morsfield kicked at his horse's flanks, and between Weyburn and the chariot step, cried: 'Back, sir! His reins were seized; the horse reared, the unexpected occurred. Weyburn shouted 'Off! to the postillion, and jumped in.
The writer has no intention of saying that all in England are affected with the absurd mania for gentility; nor is such a statement made in the book; it is shown therein that individuals of certain classes can prize a gentleman, notwithstanding seedy raiment, dusty shoes or tattered hat, for example, the young Irishman, the rich genius, the postillion, and his employer.
One might have supposed, from his occasional mutterings at the pace regulated by the postillion, that he was burning with anxiety to catch the flying coach. He had forgotten it: forgotten that he was giving chase to anything. A pair of wondering feminine eyes pursued him, and made him fret for the miles to throw a thicker veil between him and them.
The expected catastrophe occurred on the descent of a cutting in the sand, where their cordial postillion at a trot bumped the chariot against the sturdy wheels of a waggon, which sent it reclining for support upon a beech-tree's huge intertwisted serpent roots, amid strips of brown bracken and pendant weeds, while he exhibited one short stump of leg, all boot, in air. No one was hurt.
I will not say that the postillion stripped off the mask for him, at that instant completely; but he gave him the first true glimpse of his condition. From the vague sense of being an impostor, Evan awoke to the clear fact that he was likewise a fool. It was impossible for him to deny the man's claim, and he would not have done it, if he could.
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