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Updated: June 12, 2025
The next morning a traveling-carriage, with four smoking post-horses, came wheeling round the gravel to the front door.
The magistrate did not appear disposed to wait. "Let me assist you," said he. "The people at the inn where you boarded while in Leipsic must remember you." "We did not stop at an inn." "Where did you eat and sleep, then?" "In M. Simpson's large traveling-carriage; it had been sold, but he was not to give it up until he reached the port he was to sail from." "What port was that?" "I don't know."
From my aerie, as I worked under my white umbrella below the cliff, I could distinctly make out our traveling-carriage several hundred feet below and a mile away, crawling along a road of white tape with a green selvage of trees, the governor's glazed trunk flashing behind, Bäader's silk hat burning in front.
Very complacently Madame Duvant looked over the group of young faces, mentally estimating the probable gain she should receive from each, for this was the first day of the term, then with a few low-spoken words to the row of careworn, pale- faced teachers, she smoothed down the folds of her heavy gray satin and left the room, just as a handsome traveling-carriage stopped before the door.
He ended by generously forcing upon the father of Françoise and Suzanne the free use of his traveling-carriage and "two horses, as gentle as lambs and as swift as deer," with which to make their journey up the Teche to St. My father wished to know what means of transport he could secure, on his return to this point, to take us home. "Don't let that trouble you; I will arrange that.
"In my country," returned the doctor, without the least ill-humor, "a medical man is exactly like other men he is at the mercy of accidents. Pray grant me your pardon, sir, for being so long after my time; I have been detained by a very distressing case the case of Mr. Armadale, whose traveling-carriage you passed on the road yesterday." Mr.
A foreboding that I should never see him again oppressed my heart, and the tears came into my eyes as I saw the worn figure of my poor friend half helped, half lifted into the traveling-carriage, and borne away gently on the road toward home. He had never recognized me, and the doctors had begged that I would give him, for some time to come, as few opportunities as possible of doing so.
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