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And now I was seized with a passion of haste and began to shout fevered orders at our postboy. "Hurry hurry! A guinea ten guineas for your best speed! Drive, man, drive like the devil. Whip spur!" I remember tossing money to a hoarse-voiced toll-keeper in a fur cap, and we were off in full career, the light chaise rocking and swaying.
All this was very wonderful, and so were the clustered boats riding at anchor in the harbor. It was like a new world, so different was it from the sand hills and the sedgy levels of Henlopen. Tom Chist took up his lodgings at a coffee house near to the town hall, and thence he sent by the postboy a letter written by Parson Jones to Master Chillingsworth.
Even the Postboy and the Postman, which seem to have been the best conducted and the most prosperous, were wretchedly printed on scraps of dingy paper such as would not now be thought good enough for street ballads. Only two numbers came out in a week, and a number contained little more matter than may be found in a single column of a daily paper of our time.
"Eagle's Nest, Rocky Mountain Slopes, 5th October 18 ," began Fred. "Darling Mother, You've no idea what a charming place God has given me here, with plenty of work to do of the most congenial kind. I have only an opportunity for a short letter this time, because the postboy has arrived unexpectedly, and won't wait. Postboy! You would smile at that word if you saw him.
Ten days after the first number of the Intelligence Domestic and Foreign was printed the first number of the English Courant. Then came the Packet Boat from Holland and Flanders, the Pegasus, the London Newsletter, the London Post, the Flying Post, the Old Postmaster, the Postboy and the Postman.
"Always foolish to mention things!" cried Mr. Beaumont, smiling. "Of this sort, I mean," said Mrs. Beaumont, a little disconcerted. "Of what sort?" persisted her son. "Hush! my dear; here's the postboy and the ass." "Any letters, my good little boy? Any letters for me?" "I has, madam, a many for the house.
If they had not held him in their arms, he would have slid down at the foot of the tree, against which he had instinctively propped himself. The attack was less alarming to Gerald, who had seen it before, than to Frank, who had only heard of it; but the postboy was still within call, by good fortune, and was sent off for assistance.
The postboy, with the happy fatalism of his country, and a firm trust in the future, had established himself in the interior of the chaise, from which a blue curl of smoke wreathed upward from his pipe; the horses grazed contentedly by the roadside; and were I to judge from the evidence before me, I should say that I was the only member of the party inconvenienced by the accident.
'Never know'd a churchyard were there wos a postboy's tombstone, or see a dead postboy, did you? inquired Sam, pursuing his catechism. 'No, rejoined Bob, 'I never did. 'No! rejoined Sam triumphantly. 'Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no man never see, and that's a dead donkey.
But on I rode, heedless of all but the exhilaration of rushing wind, of back-whirling hedgerows and trees, on and on until before us was a hill up which a chaise was crawling. Now as I watched this vehicle carelessly enough, out from the window came a hatless head an arm that waved imperiously, and the postboy, glancing back, began to flog his animals to swifter gait.
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