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'To be sure it is, replied Jawleyford; 'five, if you count them by appetites; for old Blossom always eats and drinks as much as two people. 'What excuse do they give? asked Amelia. 'Carriage-horse taken suddenly ill, replied Jawleyford; 'as if that's any excuse when there are post-horses within half a dozen miles.
"Let it be so," said Sir Miles, briefly; and so the conversation closed. Some weeks afterwards, Lucretia went in her uncle's carriage, with four post-horses, with her maid and her footman, went in the state and pomp of heiress to Laughton, to the small lodging-house in which the kind pastor crowded his children and his young guest. She stayed there some days.
And, thus muttering to himself, he took his way to the farmyard, to find a messenger to despatch to the village for post-horses.
A multifarious wizard Country, much overhung by goblin reminiscences, witch-dances, sorcerers'-sabbaths and the like, if a rheumatic gentleman cared to look on it, in the cold twilight. Brrh! Waste chasmy uplands, snow-choked torrents; wild people, gloomy firs! Here at last, by one's watch 5 P.M., is Elbingerode, uncomfortable little Town; and it is to be hoped the forty post-horses are ready.
Elinor made no resistance that was not easily overcome. She thanked him with brief, though fervent gratitude, and while he went to hurry off his servant with a message to Mr. Harris, and an order for post-horses directly, she wrote a few lines to her mother.
Left to myself, I returned slowly, and much depressed in spirits, to Quillac's; where, ordering post-horses, I threw myself into my travelling carriage, into which my valet had, by my orders, previously placed my luggage. "Where are you going to, Monsieur?" said the valet. "Au diable!" said I. "Mais les passeports?" said the man.
Couriers, chaises, post-horses, hurried in every direction over the island, and it was noted, as a measure of the agitation, that no fewer than sixty messengers passed through a single turnpike on one day. Sensible observers were glad to think that, in consequence of the rapidity of the elections, less wine and money would be wasted than at any election for sixty years past.
Jack took it up, and his eye was caught by an advertisement for the sale of the Joan d'Arc, prize to H.M. ship Thetis, brigantine of 278 tons, copper-bottomed, armed, en flutes with all her stores, spars, sails, running and standing rigging, then lying in the harbour of Portsmouth, to take place on the following Wednesday. Jack rang the bell, and ordered post-horses.
When I again became conscious, I found myself wrapped up in a pilot-coat, while my clothes were drying: the vessel was at anchor in Wexford. My attached friends had started for town with post-horses, leaving me no less cured of love than aquatics.
This homage rendered to Becker, he hastened to let a reef out of the sheet, and the pinnace, for a moment at rest, redoubled its speed, like post-horses starting from the inn-door under the combined influence of a cheer from the postillion and a flourish of the whip. "There is a cockle-shell that skips along pretty fairly," said Willis; "but it wants two very important things." "What things?"
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