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Updated: May 25, 2025
Since starting from Limoges each postilion had informed his successor of the conjectures of the Limoges postilion as to the mission of the bishop's messenger.
'When we arrived at the gate of the field where the bank was, the rain had become very heavy; so, calling to the postilion to stop and open the door, we scampered out of the chaise, all laughing, and hastily telling him to wait there, without other explanation we climbed over the gate, and not to be long in the rain, set off running as fast as we could along the field-side of the hedge, to the bank we were looking for.
‘Pray,’ said I, ‘did you ever take lessons in elocution?’ ‘Not directly,’ said the postilion; ‘but my old master, who was in Parliament, did, and so did his son, who was intended to be an orator. A great professor used to come and give them lessons, and I used to stand and listen, by which means I picked up a considerable quantity of what is called rhetoric.
At nightfall of the 24th a travelling carriage, with four post-horses, was drawn up before the ducal palace. While some directions were given, to engage the attention of the postilion, the duchess, with Mademoiselle Lebeschu and M. de Brissac, glided out of the door unperceived, when the door was shut and the horses again set out upon the gallop for Florence.
As he finished saying this, a noise of carriages and horses was heard. Several men in cloaks rolled an enormous stone into the middle of the street. The foremost cavaliers passed rapidly through the crowd, pistols in hand, suspecting that something unusual was going on; but the postilion, who drove the horses of the first carriage, ran upon the stone and fell.
"Are you a patriot, or are you a Chouan?" said the other, sharply interrupting him. "Neither the one nor the other," replied Coupiau. "I'm a postilion, and, what is more, a Breton, consequently, I fear neither Blues nor nobles." "Noble thieves!" cried the patriot, ironically. "They only take back what was stolen from them," said the rector, vehemently.
His poor wife became so affected by these public derangements, that she retired from Paris, and shortly afterwards died. This completed her husband's madness; he survived her only a month, dying by his own hand, as I have mentioned. During the last two years of his life he carried pistols in his carriage, and frequently pointed them at his coachman and postilion.
'Wooh! said the postilion. 'It is true that I am of good 'Ay, ay, said the postilion, 'let us hear 'Of good blood, continued Belle; 'my name is Berners, Isopel Berners, though my parents were unfortunate. Indeed, with respect to blood, I believe I am of better blood than the young man.
But I should think that if they were divided on the near side only, with a loop to keep the girths together below, it might be an improvement. The short rein should be used when one hand is occupied. Its use to a soldier. Its use with the restive horse. It should not be used in hunting, or in swimming a horse. Objection to it for common riding. Used by postilion.
What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pellet of bread artistically moulded, which is sent into Ireland, that is to say, over the roofs of a prison, from one courtyard to another. Etymology: over England; from one land to another; into Ireland. This little pellet falls in the yard. The man who picks it up opens it and finds in it a note addressed to some prisoner in that yard.
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