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Updated: May 22, 2025
Seated in the spring-cart, Captain Grosvenor took the babe in his arms, that had now fallen into a quiet sleep, while Vingo, perching himself first on one foot and then the other, to keep his balance, gathered up the reins, and all started for home. "I am tinking, massa, dat my missus be quite ober-much-come at de sight of dis little sea-flower." "Yes, boy; yes, sea-flower indeed.
I have mentioned a hamlet which we passed in the spring-cart. It lay hidden behind some hillocks to the left. My landlady told me it was better than half a mile away, and "nothing when you get there; no shop; no post-office; not even a public house." I inquired in which direction lay the hall.
Mary was in Melbourne at the time, at John's nuptials; Mahony had opened the door himself to Ned's knock; and there, in a spring-cart, sat the frowsy, red-haired woman who was come to steal his wife's name from her. This invasion was the direct result of his impulsive generosity. Had he only kept his money in his pocket! He had been forced to take the trio in and give them house-room.
But the horses were of the least interest to the onlookers. It was the dusty spring-cart that interested their curious minds the cart, and the still and silent driver, who made no attempt to leave his seat. They stood gaping, not daring to disturb the ghastly figure, not daring even to approach it too closely. Their minds were thrilling with a morbid horror which held them silent.
"We could not leave her at the cottage; it was not a fit place for her. Mr. Tuke had to go to his grandfather's four miles and I had to stay with her till he came back. Old Simon came himself in his spring-cart, and took her away." "Was there no woman at the cottage?" "Yes, but worn out with work and children. Her night's rest was of more consequence to her than ten nights' waking would be to me."
He was accompanied half-way by Sally and his mother to the 'White Horse, at Chalk Newton where he was handed over to Darton's bailiff in a shining spring-cart, who met them there. The thoughtful taciturnity into which Darton had latterly fallen was quite dissipated by the presence of this boy. When the Christmas holidays came it was arranged that he should spend them with his mother.
Poyser remarked, "If you can catch Adam for a husband, Hetty, you'll ride i' your own spring-cart some day, I'll be your warrant." Her uncle did not see the little toss of the head with which Hetty answered him. To ride in a spring-cart seemed a very miserable lot indeed to her now.
She was quite innocent of what obtained you your freedom, at the time you obtained it. I saw her just afterwards, and proved it to myself completely by talking to her." Phillotson grasped the edge of the spring-cart, and appeared to be much stressed and worried by the information. "Still she wanted to go," he said. "Yes. But you shouldn't have let her.
How they all got into the spring-cart I couldn't explain, but they did somehow, and the mare did not seem to mind it at all.
"Luff off there a little, Vingo; keep to the right; these bare commons are not the easiest grounds to ride over, though with a light spring-cart like this one can navigate with some degree of comfort. The broad ocean is the place, after all. Give me the old ship Tantalizer, and I am at home. Take the glass, Vingo, and see if you can make out whether the steamboat is in sight or not."
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