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Early times in that part of the world are very early, and the roulage was ready in the back court of the inn at half-past four in the morning. 'What? you up at this hour? said Edmond. 'Why not? It is not every day we have a friend here from Granpere, so I thought I would see you off. 'That is kind of you. 'Give my love to them at the old house, Edmond. 'Of course I will.
There was the roulage: an immense cart filled with goods of all descriptions, and drawn by four or five horses, ranged one before another, each decked with a merry string of bells, and generally rising in graduated proportions from the full-sized leader to the enormous thill horse, who bore the heat and burden of the day.
Though the expense of this conveyance is enormous, it has the great advantage of speed, travelling nearly as quickly as the diligence, while by the roulage, which is cheaper, very inconvenient delays may be incurred. We quitted Paris on the 13th of September, well pleased with the treatment we had received.
M. resolved not to neglect their wants, as long as it was in his power to supply them; and the day being not far distant, when he proposed to repair to S , and to make a second visit to the Village in the Mountains, he prepared a case of a hundred New Testaments and a hundred octavo Bibles, which he forwarded to Lyons by the roulage accéléré, or baggage wagon, to meet his arrival there; and soon after took his departure from Paris.
But whether the roulage carries her to the Baltic or the Mediterranean, her affair is done, if she adds a page a day to her journal. She gossips along, and scribbles, with the indefatigable finger of a maker of bobbin lace, or a German knitter of stockings.
However, to Dorade they came hours after their time, of course, but perfectly safe: no accident ever does happen in France to any thing properly booked, except to luggage sent by roulage, to which there attaches the romantic uncertainty of Vanderdecken's correspondence. Cecil rather liked traveling; it never tired her; so, by midnight she had seen Mrs.
'I forget the lad's name; but he says that your father is well, and Madame Voss. He goes back early to-morrow with the roulage and some goods that his people have bought. I think he is at supper now. The place of honour at the top of the table at the Colmar inn was not in these days assumed by Madame Faragon.
Or rather, perhaps, the father being older and less impatient, had thought that a temporary absence from Granpere might be good for his son. It was late at night when George Voss went to bed, but he was up in the morning early to see Edmond Greisse before the roulage should start for Munster on its road to Granpere.
Stodel's man with the roulage brought me word direct from your step-mother. George immediately began to inquire within himself why Stodel's man with the roulage had not brought some word direct to him, and answered the question to himself not altogether incorrectly. 'O, yes, continued Madame Faragon, 'it is quite true on the 15th of October.
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