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Had he quit that place also he would have been in safety, for just beyond it De Bouillé had posted a strong division which would have been able to defy all resistance. But Varennes, a town on the Oise, was so small as to have no post-house, and by some mismanagement the royal party had not been informed at which end of the town they were to find the relay.
Upon a just comparison of all circumstances posting is much more easy, convenient, and reasonable in England than in France. The English carriages, horses, harness, and roads are much better; and the postilions more obliging and alert. The reason is plain and obvious. If I am ill-used at the post-house in England, I can be accommodated elsewhere.
Now and again as I rode by her window I had glanced into the coach; but never was there any change in her position, and it was only when we halted at the post-house that her pent-up fury broke out into an angry question, to relapse at once into an air of frozen indifference. The escort had dismounted, and stood with their horses in two dark groups in the front and in the rear of the coach.
"I could not have believed that of a man who is so skillful in finishing up Ural Mountain bears. Is it the case that a man can be courageous at one time and a coward at another? It is quite incomprehensible." A moment afterwards the noise of wheels and whip showed that the berlin, drawn by the tarantass' horses, was driving rapidly away from the post-house.
"Treat Ursula kindly," said the notary, lifting his right forefinger to the level of his lips; "remember old Jordy left her his savings." "You have managed those fools as well as Desroches, the best lawyer in Paris, could have done," said Goupil to his patron as they left the post-house. "And now they are quarreling over my fee," replied the notary, smiling bitterly.
As I advanced, he asked, 'Whence I came, and whitherward I was going? I answered, that 'I came from the Post-house, and was going over this Bridge: whereupon the Grenadier, quite in a passion, ran to the Tower; where he opened a door, and called out the Corporal.
"I don't know when I've been so provoked!" cried he, with a glance down the road, of mortal terror. "The father is no doubt very much incensed?" I pursued civilly. "O God!" cried the hawbuck. "In short, you see, we must get out of this. And I'll tell you what it may seem cool, but necessity has no law if you would lend us your chaise to the next post-house, it would be the very thing, sir."
Half-way to Rome we changed horses at Palo, a little grim settlement, composed of a post-house, inn, stables, a line of straggling fishermen's-huts, and a desolate old fortress, flanked by four towers.
In a house of the better class, which was a post-house, and where the rider and the woman of the house had a long consultation over a letter to be registered, we found the rooms decorated with patent-medicine pictures, which were often framed in strips of mica, an evidence of culture that was worth noting. Mica was the rage.
It was not until dusk that we reached Rabat Kerim, a small mud village, with a filthy windowless post-house. But a pigstye would have been welcome after such a ride, and the vermin which a flickering oil-lamp revealed in hundreds, on walls and flooring, did not prevent our sleeping soundly till morning.
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