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It was, in fact, though Candace did not know it, the famous Bellevue Avenue, which in summer is the favorite drive for all fashionable persons, and thronged from end to end on every fair afternoon by all manner of vehicles, from dainty pony-wagons to enormous mail-coaches. There were only a few carriages in sight now, though they seemed many to our little country maid.
Her labouring under the most erroneous impressions as to the conveyance in which she is travelling, evidently confounding it with mail-coaches, insomuch that, in regard to her luggage, she clamours to the driver to "put it in the boot," her absorbing anxiety about the pattens, "with which she plays innumerable games of quoits upon Mr.
Such now being, at that time, the usages of mail-coaches, what was to be done by us of young Oxford? We, the most aristocratic of people, who were addicted to the practice of looking down superciliously even upon the insides themselves as often very suspicious characters, were we voluntarily to court indignities?
The pressure on the mail-coaches was so great, that for two days and a night, amid ceaseless storm, snow and rain, we were continually changing from one wretched 'substitute' to another, thus turning our journey into an adventure of almost the same type as our former voyage at sea.
"No, Sir," said he, looking delighted, "nothing is ard to a man as knows how, as you do." "Tom," sais Betty, "don't that do'ee good? Oh, Sir, I ain't eard that since I left the hold country, it's what the guards has used to be played in the mail-coaches has was. Oh, Sir, when they comed to the town, it used to sound pretty; many's the time I have run to the window to listen to it.
But he reached Shorncliffe without having overtaken her, and the fly crawled under the ponderous archway beneath which the dashing mail-coaches had rolled in the days that were for ever gone. "She must have got home before me," the cashier thought; "I shall find her up-stairs with my mother." He went up to the large room with the bow-window.
'Tills be blowed! said Mr. Claypole; 'there's more things besides tills to be emptied. 'What do you mean? asked his companion. 'Pockets, women's ridicules, houses, mail-coaches, banks! said Mr. Claypole, rising with the porter. 'But you can't do all that, dear, said Charlotte. 'I shall look out to get into company with them as can, replied Noah.
Crops more profitable than hay vegetables, fruit, apple orchards, vineyards are taking the place of meadow-lands. In a few years we shall see milk sent to Paris by the mail-coaches as they now send fish. What is going on around Paris is also going on round all the large cities of France; the land will thus be used up before many years are gone.
He used to add, that he believed he was the only living person who had ever been taken as a passenger on one of these excursions. And I think he was right, gentlemen at least I never heard of any other. 'I wonder what these ghosts of mail-coaches carry in their bags, said the landlord, who had listened to the whole story with profound attention. 'The dead letters, of course, said the bagman.
When Admiral Reeside was carrying the mails between New York and Washington, there arose a formidable organization in opposition to the Sunday mail service. The members of several religious denominations were prominent in their demonstrations, and in Philadelphia, chains, secured by padlocks, were stretched across the streets on Sundays to prevent the passage of the mail-coaches.
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