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Updated: May 8, 2025
So saying, and overpowered by the long-repressed burst of filial sorrow, she sunk down on the banquette which ran along the inside of the embattled parapet of the platform, and murmuring to herself, "He is gone for ever!" abandoned herself to the extremity of grief.
A sort of banquette, or balcony, making a practicable path several feet wide, extended around the fort between the wall and the edge of the ravine. The fort proper was enclosed by a wall of rock, partly natural, partly artificial, about eight feet high. An assailant crossing the ravine and gaining the crest of the peak would have ample standing ground between the edge and the wall.
But it was soon apparent to them that they themselves had no ground of complaint, and as everybody was very civil, and as a seat in the banquette over the heads of the American ladies was provided for them, and as the man from the bureau came and apologised, they consented to be pacified, and ended, of course, by tipping half-a-dozen of the servants about the yard. Mr.
By this time they had reached an angle of the ramparts, where, jumping up on the banquette, they could enjoy a good view up the harbour. "There," exclaimed Raby, pointing to a fine man-of-war brig, which lay at the mouth of the dockyard creek just off Fort Saint Angelo. "Isn't the Ione a beauty now?" "Yes, she is, indeed; and a fine craft, I dare say, in every respect," answered Duff.
On top, in the banquette, are seats for eight, besides the postilion and guard; in the coupe, under the postilion's seat and looking upon the horses, seats for three; in the interior, for three; and on top, behind, for six or eight. The baggage is stowed in the capacious bowels of the vehicle. At seven, the six horses are brought out and hitched on, three abreast.
"Yah" replied the good-natured German, who did n't understand a word. "Two places, diligence, coupe, morning. Is it full?" "Yah," replied the accommodating fellow. "Hotel man spik English." I suggested the banquette as desirable, if it could be obtained, and the German was equally willing to give it to us.
"If I let you ride on the banquette, and let you have all the money that you save for your own, you must write a full account of your night's journey, and send it to your cousin Lucy." "Well, sir," said Rollo, "I will."
She had no intention of admitting any feminine eyes to detect this carefully covered up indigence. Besides, it was Monday. There is no sense in trifling with bad luck. The reception of Monday callers is a source of misfortune never known to fail, save in rare cases when good luck has already been secured by smearing the front walk or the banquette with Venetian red.
"I don't know," said the boy. The girl, who had been looking at Rollo during this conversation, here spoke, and said that they were going to Berne. "We are going in that diligence," said she. "So am I," said Rollo. "I have got a seat on the banquette." "Yes," rejoined the boy.
I should like to stay and see them pull it up again, so as to see how many fish they take; but business first and pleasure afterwards is the rule." So he left the parapet, and walked along the quay towards the place where the bureau was situated. "I'll come back here," said he to himself, "when I have got my place on the banquette, and see them fish a little while, if I find there is time."
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