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It is needless to say that all three were Companions of Jehu. They had been convoked, as Morgan suspected, on business of the Company. On entering the room, Morgan went straight to the pretended bearer of despatches and shook hands with him. "Ah! the dear friend," said the latter, with a stiff movement, showing that the best rider cannot do a hundred and fifty miles on post-hacks with impunity.
These lighters, in the shape of gondolas, somewhat wide and heavy, containing a small chamber, covered by the deck, and a chamber in the poop, formed by a tent, then acted as passage-boats from Orleans to Nantes, by the Loire, and this passage, a long one in our days, appeared then more easy and convenient than the high-road, with its post-hacks and its ill-hung carriages.
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