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Chaise-and-four instantly! We shall catch them yet before they reach the next stage. A guinea a-piece, boys-be alive there bustle about there's good fellows. And with such admonitions as these, the old gentleman ran up and down the yard, and bustled to and fro, in a state of excitement which communicated itself to Mr.
Before noon on that memorable morning the chaise-and-four were again at the door, and the veiled and shawl-enveloped lady was lifted in, and the vehicle dashed rapidly through the streets of Reading, in a northerly direction.
When the dawn came, and with it the chaise-and-four for which they had sent to Bath, they issued forth haggard and unshaven, but resolute; and long before the shops in Bristol had begun to look for custom, the three, with Sir George's servant, descended before the old Bush Inn, near the Docks.
Pickwick thrust his head out of his window. Yes: there was a chaise-and-four, a short distance before them, dashing along at full gallop. 'Go on, go on, almost shrieked the old gentleman. 'Two guineas a-piece, boys don't let 'em gain on us keep it up keep it up. The horses in the first chaise started on at their utmost speed; and those in Mr. Wardle's galloped furiously behind them.
We recommend all school-assistants to learn the guitar and grow fat if they can; and then, perhaps, they may prosper, like Mr Sigismund Pontifex. He contrived to elope with a maiden lady, of good property, just ten years older than himself: the sweet, innocent, indiscreet ones went off by stealth one morning before daylight, in a chaise-and-four, and returned a week after, Mr and Mrs Pontifex.
"I was not long in making up my mind. I called for my bill; I packed my clothes; I ordered post-horses; I was ready to start; one item in the bill alone detained me. The frequent occurrence of the enigmatical word 'crw, following my servant's name, demanded an explanation, which I was in the act of receiving, when a chaise-and-four drove rapidly up to the house.
'Not above three-quarters of an hour, was everybody's reply. 'Chaise-and-four directly! out with 'em! Put up the gig afterwards. 'Now, boys! cried the landlord 'chaise-and-four out make haste look alive there! Away ran the hostlers and the boys.
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