foot-postman

Updated: June 30, 2025

A communication would doubtless have been made from the Home Office to some one at Folking, and as that would be sent out by the foot-postman it would not be received before nine in the morning. But Caldigate would not allow himself to be persuaded As for eating before he had seen the dear ones at home, that he declared to be impossible.

Anthony Trollope - John Caldigate