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Updated: May 28, 2025
"Why, indeed, there is a great difference between that closet and the coach-and-four in which Cephyse came to fetch you the other day, with all the fine masks, that looked so gay particularly the fat man in the silver paper helmet, with the plume and the top boots. What a jolly fellow!" "Yes, Ninny Moulin. There is no one like him to dance the forbidden fruit.
Halifax had just looked at her watch, and she and I were wondering, with quite a childish pleasure, whether he were not now signing the important deed, when Guy came running to say a coach-and-four was trying to enter the White Gate. "Who can it be? But they must be stopped, or they'll spoil John's new gravel road that he takes such pride in. Uncle Phineas, would you mind going to see?"
I shall not stop to say much of the transit of the Patroon. He came by about noon, as was expected, and in his coach-and-four, with two out-riders, coach-man, &c. in liveries, as is usual in the families of the gentry, and with a team of heavy, black, Dutch-looking horses, that I remember Caesar pronounced to be of the true Flemish breed.
Toad, of Toad Hall, going about the country disguised as a washerwoman!" "Then you can stop here as a Toad," replied the girl with much spirit. "I suppose you want to go off in a coach-and-four!" Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong. "You are a good, kind, clever girl," he said, "and I am indeed a proud and a stupid toad.
It is too late to change for the better now." "Never! Never say that. But we do not want you to change. We looked for you to come in a coach-and-four did we not, Miriam? For I suppose you have secured your heritage, since you are here again. It is a great thing to possess riches and a great responsibility. Come, let us have tea and not think of such things. Yes yes.
We told her we were going to a place which was further away. 'Well, she said, 'I wouldn't go to that place to-night if you had a coach-and-four to drive me in, and gave me twenty pounds into the bargain! How at all will you get on in the darkness when the roads will be running with water, and you'll be likely to slip down every place into some drain or ditch?
Her guardian came to her rescue with the suggestion that they drive about the town and the mills, have an early tea and an early dinner and dispense with luncheon. "Must I tell him every day just what I want?" thought Robin, in dismay. The girl's active imagination could well picture the imposing motor which came to the door as a coach-and-four, resplendent with regal trappings.
I remember when Horsley put up against Palmer. A rare man was Palmer! Why, that Palmer drove down with a coach-and-four and postilions, and he kept us all alive for a week. He'd kiss the children in the streets, and he'd set all the taps free in any inn that he went into. It's all purity and that sort of thing now. "I don't see no good in talking politics.
And drive me down he actually did, in his grand coach-and-four, to Mr. Von Stiltz, in Clifford Street, who took my measure, and sent me home two of the finest coats ever seen, a dress-coat and a frock, a velvet waist-coat, a silk ditto, and three pairs of pantaloons, of the most beautiful make.
I had so looked forward to your coming again. It was the alluring thing in my life, your arrival," he went on; "but something came between." His tone nettled her. He talked as if he had some distant claim on her. "Something came between?" she repeated slowly, mockingly. "That sounds melodramatic indeed. What was it came between a coach-and-four, or a grand army?"
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