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"Then it won't disappoint us, of course. What a dismal way of travelling!" "This young country hasn't grown up to post-coaches yet," said Mrs. Evelyn. "How many will it hold?" inquired Mrs. Carleton. "Hum! Nine inside, I suppose." "And we number ten, with the servants. "Just take us," said Mr. Evelyn. "There's room on the box for one." "It will not take me," said Mr. Carleton.
Towards evening I came to a pleasant meadow just before I got to Leicester, through which a footpath led me to the town, which made a good appearance as I viewed it lengthways, and indeed much larger than it really is. I went up a long street before I got to the house from which the post-coaches set out, and which is also an inn.
"Then it wont disappoint us, of course. What a dismal way of travelling!" "This young country hasn't grown up to post-coaches yet," said Mrs. Evelyn. "How many will it hold?" inquired Mrs. Carleton. "Hum! nine inside, I suppose." "And we number ten, with the servants." "Just take us," said Mr. Evelyn. "There's room on the box for one." "It will not take me," said Mr. Carleton.
My companions in the two post-coaches were very lively, being mainly French actors and actresses who had just finished their winter campaign in Russia; and, when we changed horses at the post-houses, the scenes were of a sort which an American orator once characterized as ``halcyon and vociferous.
At that date the mails were carried by four-horse post-coaches from city to city, and on horseback from central points into the country towns. The rates of postage were high.
There the exile would sit hour after hour, not as one may sit there now, to see sails and steamers entering and leaving the harbour, and post-coaches and railroad cars passing and re-passing continually; but to gaze in astonishment and fear, if one lone ship might be descried coming up the bay, or if a solitary horseman was to be seen or heard pursuing his journey in the valley below.
Poor Johnnie looks so very poorly that I cannot but regard his case as desperate, and then God help the child's parents! Amen! We took the whole of one of the post-coaches, and so came rapidly to town, Sophia coming along with us about a new servant. This enabled me to dine with Mr. Adolphus, the celebrated barrister, the father to my young friend who wrote so like a gentleman on my matters.
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