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Here he was, talking like a gentleman at large who was free to come and go and roam about the world at pleasure, when that gallant coachmaker had vowed but the night before that Miss Varden held him bound in adamantine chains; and had positively stated in so many words that she was killing him by inches, and that in a fortnight more or thereabouts he expected to make a decent end and leave the business to his mother.
But I HAVE heerd say, that the coachmaker thought twice about it he he he! and that he told a young man as was a frind of his, that he hoped he knowed better than to be drawed into that; though she and all the family DID pull uncommon strong! Here she paused for a reply, and receiving none, went on as before.
This afternoon I went to my coachmaker and Crow's, and there saw things go on to my great content.
"Nucingen must give her a carriage and horses; she will have to choose and buy everything herself. Go to the horse-dealer and the coachmaker who are employed by the job-master where Paccard finds work. We shall get handsome horses, very dear, which will go lame within a month, and we shall have to change them." "We might get six thousand francs out of a perfumer's bill," said Europe.
'I think it's a pity you was not brought up to something, said he. I said I thought so too. 'Would a po-shay do for you? he asked. 'I am not sure that I understand what you mean. 'Would a po-shay, said the coachmaker, standing close before me, and folding his arms in the manner of a cross-examining counsel 'would a po-shay meet the views you have expressed? Yes, or no? 'Yes.
The best of it is that Paulton went to his coachmaker, to order his carriage, saying, 'Mr. Houlditch, I am growing old too old to be eccentric any longer; I must have something remarkably plain; and to this hour Paulton goes brown-ing about the town, crying out to every one, 'Nothing like simplicity, believe me."
Mordicai, a famous London coachmaker, a curricle, warranted sound, for which he had paid a sound price, upon express condition that Mr. Mordicai should be answerable for all repairs of the curricle for six months.
This afternoon I went to my coachmaker and Crow's, and there saw things go on to my great content.
Among other vehicles, Ducrocq has, in his remise, an apparently-good cabriolet de voyage, belonging to one of his Paris correspondents; but, on account of the wretched state of the roads, he begs me to allow him time to send for his coachmaker, to examine it scrupulously, that I may not be detained by the way, from any accident happening to the carriage.
Always bear in mind, my beloved pupils, that the means of livelihood depend not on the virtues, but the vices of others. The lawyer, the statesman, the hangman, the physician, are paid by our sins; nay, even the commoner professions the tailor, the coachmaker, the upholsterer, the wine-merchant draw their fortunes, if not their existence, from those smaller vices, our foibles.
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