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"God be praised!" said the latter; "here is the old Dial an' the strong an' noble Trove. I heard o' thy trouble, boy, far off on the postroad, an' I have made haste to come to thee." The Rare and Costly Cup Trove had been reciting the history of his trouble and had finished with bitter words. "Shame on thee, boy," said the tinker, as Trove sat before him with tears of anger in his eyes.
He shifted the stick from right to left. His revolver dragged chafing against a leg, and he removed it and thrust it into a pocket of the coat. He followed by turn an old rutted postroad and faint, forest trails, and shortened distances by breaking through the trackless underbrush, watching subconsciously for rattlesnakes.
"If the Piz della Margna were to topple over and crush me where I stand, it would be less unforeseen than was my sweet Etta's fate. But I frighten you, lady, a poor return for your kindness. That is your way, through the village, and by the postroad till you reach a notice board telling you where to take the path." There was a crude gentility in his manner that added to the pathos of his words.
I think he would force all this country to speak English in two months. We all desired to secure places in the diligence, which was likely to be full, as is usually the case when a railway discharges itself into a postroad. We were scarcely in the omnibus, when the gentleman said to the conductor: "I want two places in the coupe of the diligence in the morning. Can I have them?"
"Where is it?" "Isn't to-morrow our mineral bath?" Mrs. March interposed between her husband and temptation. "No; the day after. Why, it's about ten or twelve miles out on the old postroad that Napoleon took for Prague." "Napoleon knew a good road when he saw it," said the general, and he alone of the company lighted a cigar.
I think he would force all this country to speak English in two months. We all desired to secure places in the diligence, which was likely to be full, as is usually the case when a railway discharges itself into a postroad. We were scarcely in the omnibus, when the gentleman said to the conductor: "I want two places in the coupe of the diligence in the morning. Can I have them?
"Where is it?" "Isn't to-morrow our mineral bath?" Mrs. March interposed between her husband and temptation. "No; the day after. Why, it's about ten or twelve miles out on the old postroad that Napoleon took for Prague." "Napoleon knew a good road when he saw it," said the general, and he alone of the company lighted a cigar.
I think he would force all this country to speak English in two months. We all desired to secure places in the diligence, which was likely to be full, as is usually the case when a railway discharges itself into a postroad. We were scarcely in the omnibus, when the gentleman said to the conductor: "I want two places in the coupe of the diligence in the morning. Can I have them?"
"Where is it?" "Isn't to-morrow our mineral bath?" Mrs. March interposed between her husband and temptation. "No; the day after. Why, it's about ten or twelve miles out on the old postroad that Napoleon took for Prague." "Napoleon knew a good road when he saw it," said the general, and he alone of the company lighted a cigar.
This was evidently a highway or postroad, worthy of emulation in other lands, and planned by the Government, a veritable blessing to man and beast. We passed a comfortable night in Maos at the Government rest house, Staats, and left at the early hour of 6 A.M. for a return journey to Batavia.
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