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Away lumbered the volante, and away we pranced after it.
Removing his cap, and wiping the reeking perspiration from his brow, the young officer now approached the volante and said to the lady: "I trust, madame, that you have received no further injury by this unfortunate encounter than must needs occur to you from fright."
You know that the volante cannot upset; nevertheless you experience some anxious moments when it leans at an obtuse angle, one wheel in air, one sticking in a hole, the horses balking and kicking, and the postilion swearing his best. But it is written, the volante shall not upset, and so it does not.
"Senor, the pleasure of having served you richly compensated for any personal inconvenience or risk I may have experienced," answered Lieutenant Bezan; saying which, he bowed low and looked once into the lovely eyes of the beautiful Senorita Isabella, when at a word to the calesaro, the volante again passed on in the circular drive.
The Yankee laughed at the heavy straight shafts and the mule that drew the volante, as the gig was called, and the vehicle creaked and cried as it rolled along over the road, which was like a dry river-bed.
They would send their travelling volante for us, they said, which was not so handsome as the city volante, but stronger, as it had need to be, for the roads.
Clay said he was glad to find that his duties were to be of so pleasant a nature, and asked them what they had seen and what they had done. They told him they had been nowhere, but had waited for his return in order that he might act as their guide. "Then you should see the city at once," said Clay, "and I will have the volante brought to the door, and we can all go in this afternoon.
The child was placed with his sister and father in a volante, and borne away from the spot with all speed, that the necessary care and attention might be afforded to him which they could only expect in their own home. In the meantime a peculiar satisfaction mantled the brow and features of the young officer who had thus signally served Don Gonzales and his child.
The floor of the store below, the pavement of the corridor where stood the idle volante, were covered with straw, and servants came and went by the beckoning of the hand. "This way," whispered a guide of the four ladies from the Grandissime mansion.
At the opening of the session in June, the members were divided into three parties, namely, the cavaliers or Jacobites, the revolutioners, the squadrone volante, or flying squadron, headed by the marquis of Tweedale, who disclaimed the other two factions, and pretended to act from the dictates of conscience alone.
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