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From thence we hunted the Rhine country on both sides of the river before proceeding to Prince Eugene's headquarters, which had been moved farther back in the interior, toward the Taunus hills. We traveled rapidly. A journey is fast or slow, according as there is money forthcoming. Old Peter, in spite of his years, acted admirably as an avant-courier.
Confounded and bewildered by my asseveration, my father knew not whose veracity to impeach; but, charitably concluding there was some mistake, or that I was, as heretofore, a fickle, thoughtless being, considered himself bound in honour to communicate the substance of our conversation to Mr Somerville; and the latter no sooner received it, than he placed the letter in Emily's hands a very comfortable kind of avant-courier for a lover, after an absence from his mistress of full three years.
The young man advanced from the city to meet him with the coolness of one who has been taught to restrain his emotions, and armed with determination to win the battle that would make or break him, so far as his employers were concerned. Jerrard was the avant-courier of this novel railroad.
A forbud is sent on with printed notices filled up with the time at which the traveller expects to arrive at each station. This avant-courier is often a little boy, and sometimes, to save the expense of a horse, for which the traveller has paid, he is sent on foot. On one occasion we met a young girl, with bare feat, who had walked sixteen miles with notice papers, as our forbud.
Looking toward the window to avoid her companion's eyes, she exclaimed: "It is raining quite fast! I am glad I brought the children home before this shower." "An avant-courier of April. You were walking with Mrs. Ormonde's boys, then?" "Yes; I take them out every day." "An uncommonly good-looking governess," thought De Burgh. "You have not been here long, I think?" he said. "About three weeks.
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