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Her repose was broken by the hoots and hisses of another vulgar crowd, that swarmed like hornets about the carriage-windows. They had arrived at another station, where, in place of finding post-horses, they were met by another mob as vituperative as the one they had encountered before. Eugene thrust open the portiere, and, leaping into the very midst of the rioters, he drew out his pistols.
But even thus placed, sitting in her carriage and guarded by servants, she usually prefers to fence off inquisitive eyes by a bonnet-veil, or the blinds of her carriage-windows.
In her new, glad sense of freedom, she had quite forgotten that the hour had long since arrived when her flight must most certainly be discovered, and that there were, after all, still only six miles of road between her and her old life; and it was with quite a newly awakened dread that even now unfriendly eyes might be watching her from some one of the carriage-windows, that she jumped hastily into the nearest compartment she could find.
Then came the day of parting drizzly, wet, and depressing just such a day as people always seem to choose on which to leave England; there was the usual routine of departure; the 'special' from Waterloo, the crowd at the station, the plethora of bags, chairs, and hold-alls; the good-byes, the children held up to the carriage-windows to wave hands, the 'last looks, and the tears stopped in their flow by anxiety about luggage and missing bags.
"Listen, Aunt Medea," she said, suddenly. "Do you hear anything?" The poor dependent listened. Both occupants of the carriage heard shouts that became more and more distinct with each revolution of the wheels. "Let us find out the meaning of this," said Mlle. Blanche. And lowering one of the carriage-windows, she asked the coachman the cause of the disturbance.
There is a glittering air of substantial opulence, with an attempt and a successful one at fine boulevards and fine trees. The approach to Lille recalled the protracted approach to some great English manufacturing town, the tall chimneys flying by the carriage-windows a good quarter of an hour before the town was reached.
Imagine with what feverish excitement we awoke on that Saturday, and how we watched the numbers, gazing from the carriage-windows, at the tobacco- shop! Well, not one of those numbers came out! We drove home in silence, with our feathers all drooping. Unsympathetic Mr. "Unfeeling man! Why should we come to grief?" we cried with impatience.
At last, he went downstairs in haste, threw himself into a carriage and had himself driven to the railway, intending to see Adrienne again. "Quickly! quickly! at your best speed!" The driver whipped up his horses and the carriage-windows clattered with the noise of old iron. Vaudrey arrived too late. The train had left twenty minutes before. He had reflected too long at his window.
Lady Grace, who was also leaving the following morning, may be presumed to have echoed it with far more sorrow. The Wyndhams were going that day, and disappeared down the drive, waving handkerchiefs, and carriage-rugs, and hats on sticks, out of the carriage-windows, as is the custom of really amusing people when taking leave.
"Such a nice-looking young man, too, who'd 'ave thought it!" whispered one of the many heads that were thrust out at the carriage-windows to look at him as he passed. "Get in here," said Blunt, holding open the door of an empty second-class compartment of the same train; "we shan't want a ticket for this part of the journey." "But the lady I mentioned," said poor Edwin, "she can "
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