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Updated: May 28, 2025
"It's a short five miles. The donkey-cart will take the portmanteau." Upon which they started off at a pace that made the little man wonder whether he could possibly keep it up. "We shall get in before dark," explained the other, striding along with ease, "and Mrs. Mawle, my housekeeper, will have tea ready and waiting for us."
They let pass incredible stories: among others, that she had sent cards to the nobility and gentry of the West End of London, offering to deliver sacks of potatoes by newly-established donkey-cart at the doors of their residences, at so much per sack, bills quarterly; with the postscript, Vive L'aristocratie! Their informant had seen a card, and the stamp of the Fleetwood dragoncrest was on it.
"Is he the pretty little round-faced boy in the sailor suit?" "Yes," said Nora, joining in the conversation. "Then he's not in the pony-trap," replied Annie. "I don't think he left the schoolroom." "Cute little beggar," laughed Nora. "He wants to come in the donkey-cart."
The appearance of a curricle and a donkey-cart within the gates of Beckley Court, produced a sensation among the men of the lower halls, and a couple of them rushed out, with the left calf considerably in advance, to defend the house from violation. Toward the curricle they directed what should have been a bow, but was a nod.
Long before dawn, the roads leading townwards are busy with all manner of vehicles, from the great waggon drawn by four white horses driven tandem, and laden with a moving stack of hay, to the ramshackle donkey-cart conveying half a score of cabbages, a heap of dandelions grubbed from the meadows, and the owner. By daybreak the market square under the leafless trees presents a lively scene.
How many towns have librarians who work without pay, and furnish all their materials besides?" Bert suddenly mounted the seat of the donkey-cart. "What's the matter with the Boat Club?" he inquired hoarsely. "We're all right," modestly replied the Boat Club, boys and girls together. "What's the matter with the Three R's?" "They're all right." "What's the matter with the library?"
No, it could not be there. Where was he then? Asleep and dreaming, he believed the next minute; and then all came back with a leap his capture, the swing off the cliff, the straw in the donkey-cart, and that was where he was now, only the donkey was standing still, for there was no jolting, and it had ceased to kick the front board of the cart.
A carriage driving out through a gate forced phaeton and donkey-cart into proximity; the wheels grated, the lighter vehicle skidded, and was overturned. Swithin did not look round. On no account would he have pulled up to help the ruffian. Serve him right if he had broken his neck! But he could not if he would. The greys had taken alarm.
Steady, steady there. Mind the donkey-cart. Bear away to the right. Don't let 'em get above themselves. Excuse me, Sir Richard." He leaned forward and laid both hands quietly on the reins. "Look here, sir," he said, "I think you'd better let Henry lead the horses past all this variety business." The end of the street was reached.
You will be kept a very close prisoner, and it will be most unpleasant. We want to use you well." "And you nearly smother me; you drag me here in a wretched donkey-cart; and you nearly starve me to death." "On chicken and wine," said Sir Henry smiling. "Come, Hilary, your parole." "No, Sir Henry," cried the young man, "I'll give no parole.
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