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Updated: May 1, 2025
"Look here, Eleanor," Jack broke in again; "I'll drive Margery home in the donkey-carriage, and you can go with Clem in the cab. I wish you'd give me the wreath off your hat, too."
Everywhere the people turned out to line the roads, and worthily receive the expected visitors, and great was the cheering when they arrived, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady de Grey, Lord and Lady Vivian, General Knollys, and others, but louder still was the cheer when the Princess rode down the steep descent to the cliffs in a donkey-carriage.
It was therefore fortunate for me that I overtook him at Kiora; though he was about to prove a sore incumbrance to me, for he was not able to walk, and the donkey-carriage, after the rough experience of the Makata valley, was failing.
The donkey-carriage was a pretty little thing on four wheels, with a seat in front and a seat behind, each capable of holding one small person. Eleanor had almost outgrown the front seat, but she managed to squeeze into it, and I climbed in behind.
You see her driving herself in a little donkey-carriage, and throwing bits of meat to pussy-cats at the cottage doors. Touch of nature that, isn't it? By the by, you were speaking of a family named Gildersleeve." He added this, absently looking about the little room, which just now they had to themselves. "Know anything about them?" asked Gammon, eyeing him curiously.
"I should not at all mind a donkey-carriage for Tou Tou, but I shall not insist upon that." He is smiling broadly now. The shade has fled away, and only sunshine remains. "And what for yourself? you seem to have forgotten yourself!" "For myself!" I echo, in surprise, "I have been telling you you cannot have been listening all these things are for myself." Again he has turned his face half away.
"They'll come in a cab, because of the luggage," said Eleanor, "and because we are never quite sure when they will come; so it's no use sending to meet them. They often miss trains on purpose to stay somewhere on the road for fun. But I think they'll come all right this time I begged them to and we'll go and meet them in the donkey-carriage."
The little old lady, with her white hair and her plain mourning clothes, in her wheeled chair or her donkey-carriage one saw her so; and then close behind with their immediate suggestion of singularity, of mystery, and of power the Indian servants. That was the familiar vision, and it was admirable; but, at chosen moments, it was right that the widow of Windsor should step forth apparent Queen.
One afternoon he was watching the sun from his tower, half echoing the Greek astronomer's wish that he might be set close to that luminary for the wonder of beholding it in all its glory, under the slight penalty of being consumed the next instant. She was seated in the donkey-carriage that had now taken the place of her landau, the white animal looking no larger than a cat at that distance.
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