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Updated: June 15, 2025
It was on the Wednesday that the idlers about the old coach-yard of the George and Gate woke up from their usual expressionless stare at things in general to notice a stranger who came along at a brisk rate, carrying a small portmanteau, and looking sharply and with a quick penetrating glance at them and the sign and the bar of the tap, where he called for a glass of ale and inquired his way to the vicarage.
Bouvard had quitted Paris only on the third day, as he had to dine once more with Barberou. He arrived in the coach-yard at the last moment; then he woke up before the cathedral of Rouen: he had mistaken the diligence. In the evening, all the places for Caen were booked.
‘I never saw you before in all my life,’ said the fellow, though his countenance seemed to belie his words. ‘That is not true,’ said I; ‘you are the man who attempted to cheat me of one-and-ninepence in the coach-yard, on the first morning of my arrival in London.’
'What's the fun? said a rather tall, thin, young man, in a green coat, emerging suddenly from the coach-yard. 'informers! shouted the crowd again. 'We are not, roared Mr. Pickwick, in a tone which, to any dispassionate listener, carried conviction with it. 'Ain't you, though ain't you? said the young man, appealing to Mr.
A long hall runs off to the back of the house, with odd steps here and there to throw you. Your room looks out upon a coach-yard, and as you wash you overhear a love-passage down below. In the evening you go forth to see the town. If it lies on the ocean, you walk upon the mole and watch the fisher folk winding up their nets, or sitting with tranquil pipes before their doors.
This being the gala-day of the manufacturing people about Liverpool, the steamboats to Rock Ferry were seasonably crowded with large parties of both sexes. They were accompanied with two bands of music, in uniform; and these bands, before I left the hotel, were playing, in competition and rivalry with each other in the coach-yard, loud martial strains from shining brass instruments.
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