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Whole hours, and even days, were either passed in gloomy silence or spent in pain, accompanied by distressing coughs, and all the melancholy signs of the approach of death. He made a last effort to ride a few miles round Longwood on the 22d of January 1821, but it exhausted his strength, and from that time his only exercise was in the calash. Even that slight motion soon became too fatiguing.
I'm not a woman to wear a calash." "Very true; but ye might find a woman that is precious in your eyes to wear it for ye, as " "Come, Davy," interrupted the Major, "your shot or a retreat. The Adjutant is getting impatient." "The Quartermaster's department and the Adjutant's department are seldom compliable, Lundie; but I'm ready.
"Then surely you would not harm the man by whom it is signed?" "I know you, sir, I recognised you immediately. I saw you in Paris when you were Director of the Post-office, and you granted a just claim which I had upon you. I have now come to tell you that they are harnessing two horses to your calash, and you may set off at full speed."
Darden, coming out of the vestry room, found the churchyard almost cleared, and the road in a cloud of dust. The greater number of those who came a-horseback were gone, and there had also departed both berlins, the calash, and two chaises. Mr. Haward was handing the three Graces into the coach with the chained coachman, Juba standing by, holding his master's horse.
Well, 'tis a delicious thing to be rich; what a world of Lovers it invites: I have one for every Hand, and the Favorite for my Lips. Har. Mop. But of all my Lovers, I am for the Farmer's Son, because he keeps a Calash and I'll swear a Coach is the most agreeable thing about a Man. Har. Ho, ho! Mop. Ah, me, What's that? Har. The Ghost of a poor Lover, dwindled into a Heyho. Scaramouch enters.
"They love me, and and they don't punish me when others are to blame." Not choosing to pass through the kitchen, where the dragoons would probably be sitting, she stole out of the front door, without wrap or calash, and in an instant was almost swept off her feet and nearly blinded by the rush of wind and snow.
"Yes," continued the fat gentlemen, "and would you believe that in the mass of debts there are nine hundred dollars for credit and five thousand dollars for champagne. And now all his creditors stand there prettily and open their mouths; all the thing in the house are hardly worth two farthings; and out of the house they find, as the only indemnification a calash!"
"But the distance to the next tavern is six miles. It was unwise to leave you here alone upon the road. Do you not know that these highways are not safe?" "I have seen no one; nor hath any spoke with me before this. I fear naught." "But it should not be," he said with decision. "Peggy, do you think that your mother " "Mother would be pleased to offer the friend a seat in the calash, Robert."
Nothing more that is worthy of Mention took place until our leaving Paris. We came away in a calash, that is, my Master and the Chaplain, riding at their Ease in that vehicle, while I trotted behind on a little Bidet, and posted it through St. Denis to Beauvais.
Mr Vanslyperken bowed humbly and retired, delighted with the successful result of his manoeuvre, and, with a gay heart he leaped into his calash, and drove off. "Yes, yes," thought he, "Madam Vandersloosh, you would betray me. We shall see. Yes, yes, we shall see, Madam Vandersloosh."
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