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Updated: May 25, 2025
'Well, as I'm alive! cried the postmistress from the interior of the conveyance, peering through the little square back-window along the road townward. 'What? said the carrier. 'A man hailing us! Another sudden stoppage. 'Somebody else? the carrier asked. 'Ay, sure! All waited silently, while those who could gaze out did so. 'Now, who can that be? Burthen continued.
Ye have heard how the devout minister of Tinwald had a fair son carried away, and wedded against his liking to an unchristened bride, whom the elves and the fairies provided; ye have heard how the bonnie bride of the drunken Laird of Soukitup was stolen by the fairies out at the back-window of the bridal chamber, the time the bridegroom was groping his way to the chamber door; and ye have heard but why need I multiply cases?
'Lock the door, I said, 'and come into my room. We're on the brink of explanations. In about twenty minutes the bush below the back-window parted and the Kaffir slipped out. He grinned at me, and after a glance round, hopped very nimbly over the sill. Then he examined the window and pulled the curtains. 'Is the outer door shut? he asked in excellent English.
You peep under an arch, you descend stairs that look as if they would land you in a cellar, you turn to the back-window of a grimy tenement in a lane: and behold! you are face-to-face with distant and bright prospects. You turn a corner, and there is the sun going down into the Highland hills. You look down an alley, and see ships tacking for the Baltic.
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