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Updated: May 27, 2025
But it was not authentic news, and Sebastian gathered little comfort from the fact not unknown to the whispering citizens that Rapp himself had heard nothing from the outer world since the Elbing mail-cart had been turned back by the first of the Cossacks on the night of the seventh of January.
It seemed desirable to get to the Fair as quickly as possible, so Robert who could now take enormous steps and so go very fast indeed consented to wheel the others in this. It was as easy to him now as wheeling the Lamb in the mail-cart had been in the morning. The Lamb's cold prevented his being of the party. It was a strange sensation being wheeled in a pony-carriage by a giant.
The Lamb's mail-cart was covered with a red-and-blue checked table-cloth, and made an admirable baggage-wagon. The Lamb asleep inside it was not at all in the way. So the banditti set out along the road that led to the sand-pit. "We ought to be near the Sammyadd," said Cyril, "in case we think of anything suddenly."
The post arrived at Monkshaven three times in the week; sometimes, indeed, there were not a dozen letters in the bag, which was brought thither by a man in a light mail-cart, who took the better part of a day to drive from York; dropping private bags here and there on the moors, at some squire's lodge or roadside inn.
There was a vague belief that it went about fifteen miles and "caught" something somewhere; but nobody knew for certain, except the postmistress and the mail-cart driver, who were always remarkably reticent on the point. The driver was dressed in red, carried a long horn slung at the side of the cart, and was popularly believed also to have pistols with him.
One day a lady was wheeling her two babies in a mail-cart up and down the wide road, while the Boers were busily shelling a distant part of the defences. The children clapped their hands when they heard the peculiar siren and whistle of the quick-firing Krupp shells, followed by dull thuds, as they buried themselves in the ground.
"I met the mail-cart ten minutes ago, and a letter was put into my hand, which I opened without reading the address. I believe it is yours. You must excuse the accident please." "O yes not a bit of difference, Mr. Boldwood not a bit." said Gabriel, readily.
He is at one and the same time the cabman and the cab-horse of Japan. He waits in the street with his little carriage, and when you jump in he takes hold of the shafts himself and trots away with you at a good speed. The jin-ri-ki-sha, to give it its full name, means man-power carriage, and is like a big mail-cart or perambulator.
Coulson is i' t' shop, but he'll not notice thee like Phoebe. By-and-by Kester came back. It seemed as though Sylvia had never stirred; she looked eagerly at him, but did not speak. 'He went away i' Rob Mason's mail-cart, him as tak's t' letters to Hartlepool. Corneys has been theere askin' for him, an' makin' a piece o' work, as he niver went near em; and they bees cousins.
He went to bed early; but he knew that he would not sleep until the mail-cart had gone. His wife was sleeping peacefully. He could feel the warmth of her body close against him; her breath, drawn so lightly and regularly, just touched his face; and he edged away cautiously, seeking space in which to turn without disturbing her. At immeasurably long periods the church clock chimed the quarters.
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