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But when we got to the Heathknowes road-end, we beheld a yellow coach, with four horses, a coachman and two outriders, all three in canary-coloured suits. It was early days for such equipages to be seen in Galloway, where, excluding the post-road on which the Irish mail ran from Dumfries to Stranraer, there were few roads and fewer bridges which would bear a coach-and-four.
Fishwick did not understand what was afoot, until the rider appeared at the road-end, and coming plump upon them, drew rein. Then Sir George's voice rang out, stern and ominous. 'Good evening, Mr. Dunborough, he said, and raised his hat. 'Well met! We are travelling the same road, and, if you please, will do the rest of our journey together.
I'll go as fast as iver I can!" "And have a conveyance at the road-end of the lane as near an hour hence as you possibly can?" "Why, there, sir!" he cried, crassly inspired; "I could drive you in our own trap in half the time." "Oh, no, you couldn't! I I'm not fit to be out at all; it must be a closed conveyance; but I'll come to the end of the lane to save time, so let him wait there.
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