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When the light wheels of the dog-cart gritted on the mill-road before the little garden gate of Redman's Farm, the tall slender figure of Rachel Lake was dimly visible, standing cloaked and waiting by it. Silently she handed her little black leather bag to her brother, and then there was a pause. He stretched his hand to help her up. In a tone that was icy and bitter, she said
They leave London at five, and get to Dollington at half-past ten, and Driver never has them in sooner than twenty minutes past eleven! D d humbug! I'd undertake to take a dog-cart over the ground in twenty minutes. 'Is Larkin here? I asked. 'Oh, no run up to town. I'm so glad he's away the clumsiest dog in England nothing clever no invention only a bully the people hate him. Wealdon's my man.
Good-morning; I shall wire at once." Mr. Martin Hewitt locked the drawer of his table and sent his clerk for a cab. At Twyford Station Sir James Norris was waiting with a dog-cart. Sir James was a tall, florid man of fifty or thereabout, known away from home as something of a county historian, and nearer his own parts as a great supporter of the hunt, and a gentleman much troubled with poachers.
It was neglected; weeds grew all over it, and the adjacent meadows were scarcely distinguishable from the avenue itself. The Squire ran after the dog-cart, and leaped up while the mare was going at full speed. "Well done, father!" called back Nora. "Heaven preserve us!" thought Mrs. O'Shanaghgan, who still sat speechless, and as if made of iron.
As an exordium, it was faultless. But it was destined to remain a fragment. It goes down to history as a perfect fragment, like the beginning of a pagan temple that the death of gods has rendered superfluous. For a dog-cart stopped in front of the house at that precise second, deposited a lady of commanding mien, and dashed off again. The lady opened James's gate and knocked at James's front door.
When all the older folk have been packed off, the dog-cart appears and with it the 'awfully good animal, which of course has to be admired, and viewed from all points, before the owner sees fit to start. Lippa, of course, has the place of honour, by the driver, much to Jimmy's disgust.
'The Captain was going to dine at Bowstead's, said Fulbert, 'so he drove us in his dog-cart. If the frost holds, we are to go out and skate on Monday. Felix employed himself in putting away his papers, without answering. 'I had very good luck, continued Fulbert, 'four out of six; wonderful for so new a hand, the Captain said.
On the quay-side Ethne was waiting for him in her dog-cart; she gave him the hand and the smile of a comrade. "You are surprised to see me," said she, noting the look upon his face. "I always am," he replied. "For always you exceed my thoughts of you;" and the smile changed upon her face it became something more than the smile of a comrade.
Charles's dog-cart pulled up before the middle flight of steps; servants appeared; the Marquis came forward, and offering his arm to the doctor's wife, conducted her to the vestibule. It was paved with marble slabs, was very lofty, and the sound of footsteps and that of voices re-echoed through it as in a church.
As he got down from the dog-cart he thought regretfully of the cool, shady drawing-room at the Wood House, and the pretty tea-table with its silver urn and old-fashioned china. Cedric was so thoughtless. Of course his sisters would be expecting them. Carlyon seemed a pleasant fellow, but he was not sure that he desired a closer acquaintance with him.
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