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Updated: May 1, 2025
Farther behind I heard the scrambling of many hoofs, but whether of the tub-carriers or the troopers' horses it was not for me to guess. The mare knew, however, for as the slope grew easier, she whinnied and slackened her pace to give them time to come up. This also gave me a chance to shift my seat a bit, for the edges of the kegs were nipping my calves cruelly.
I was not in dread of falling, either; for her heels fell so lightly on the turf that they persuaded all fear of broken bones out of the thought of falling; but I was in desperate dread of those thundering tub-carriers just behind, who seemed to come down like a black racing wave right on top of us, and to miss us again and again by a foot or less.
To my dismay, he halted but five paces from me. "Is that you, Leicester?" he whispered. "Sergeant Letcher, if you please," answered a quiet voice close by; "unless you wish to be called Pickthall." "Not so loud the windows are open. How on earth did you come here? You're not with the van to-night?" "I came on a horse, and a lame one: one of your tub-carriers.
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