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But he did not answer, and only hummed under his breath, as we walked to the waiting car: "How far, how far to Gretna? It's years and years away And coach-and-four shall nevermore Fling dust across the day."
Carry's sweet woman's brightness had once been as dear to him, but all that had now passed away. "Is it a'going all through?" asked the miller, referring to the mill. "Running as pretty as a coach-and-four when I left at seven this morning," said Sam. "And how did thee come?" "By the marrow-bone stage, as don't pay no tolls; how else?"
"But how did they spend their Sundays, grandmamma?" asked Emily. "They went to church in Reading," answered the old lady; "where they had a grand pew lined with crimson cloth. They never missed going twice; they came in their coach-and-four; they did not knot on Sundays, but I can hardly say what they did beside." Lucy fetched a deep breath again, and grandmamma went on.
He drove the family coach-and-four to Southampton with Miss Horrocks inside: and the county people expected, every week, as his son did in speechless agony, that his marriage with her would be announced in the provincial paper. It was indeed a rude burthen for Mr. Crawley to bear.
I sobbed and cried the whole way, for where were the delights then to me of a coach-and-four? I was taken immediately up to her bedroom, for she had called again for poor dear Mary. But, oh, how shocked was I when I approached the bed!
"Well, when they come back we'll have her to tell us ours," said Lizzie, "and see if the coach-and-four is to fall to our lot." "But I don't think mamma would like us to have our fortunes told. I know she was very much displeased with one of the servants allowing the gipsy woman to tell her hers. If we want to see the encampment, we had better not have anything to do with the fortune-teller.
When taking leave of me, Uncle George had said that some responsible person would meet me on my arrival at the station to take charge of me, from the "scholastic establishment;" and as I had conceived the most magnificent ideas of this place from a lithograph I had seen at the top of the prospectus referring to it, representing a palatial mansion standing in its own grounds, with a commanding view of the adjacent sea, I stared about the platform, expecting to see a gorgeous footman in livery or some other imposing personage, who would presently step up requesting me to take a seat in a coach-and-four or similar stately vehicle, and then drive me off in triumph to the educational mansion.
They came to see me on the day on which I was making my preparations for going to Holland. My brother and Tiretta were with me, and as I was still living in furnished apartments I took them all to Laudel's, where they gave one an excellent dinner. Tiretta, drove his coach-and-four; he was ruining his ex-methodist, who was still desperately in love with him.
"You will come in and see us as often as you can while you are here?" said the kindly rector, as if vaguely conscious of a change in this visitor. "You will always find a welcome whether you come in a coach-and-four or on foot you know that." "Thank you yes. I know that." The rector peered at him through his spectacles. "I hope," he said, "that you will soon be successful in getting your own.
Let us talk of making money, and driving a coach-and-four through this villanous world," your cousin sank into a profound revery; and when he woke from it, it was like the waking of the earth after a night in spring, the bare trees had put forth buds! And, some time after, he startled me by a prayer that I would permit him, with his father's consent, to accompany you to Australia.
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