Coaching days and coaching ways . vice. Success, stimulant, andthe lull in the snow storm have, however, made thecoachman daring. He observes thickly that he is anEnglishman, and declares his intention of inning atBagshot for the night, whether the passengers leavethe coach or stick to it. Upon this the young captor ofthe highwayman says, blushing with ingenuous shame,that he is willing to go on ; upon which the younglady, blushing also, says that she is willing necessitates the mother also putting her neck in 94 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS jeopardy, and she, too, re-enters the co
Coaching days and coaching ways . vice. Success, stimulant, andthe lull in the snow storm have, however, made thecoachman daring. He observes thickly that he is anEnglishman, and declares his intention of inning atBagshot for the night, whether the passengers leavethe coach or stick to it. Upon this the young captor ofthe highwayman says, blushing with ingenuous shame,that he is willing to go on ; upon which the younglady, blushing also, says that she is willing necessitates the mother also putting her neck in 94 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS jeopardy, and she, too, re-enters the coach. The lawyer,seeing himself in danger of being divided from theproprietress of a snug estate in Devonshire, free fromencumbrances, and perhaps divided from her for ever,takes his heart out of his boots, recites a by-law to thecoachman on the subject of catastrophes, and driverscommitted for manslaughter, and sits by the widowsside; the captain, for his very uniforms sake, feelsbound to follow the lawyers suit; and amidst faint. St. Annes Gate, Salisbury. hurrahs from half-frozen potboys, the Exeter Fly startsgallantly on its last flight. At Egham, one mile threefurlongs on, it begins to snow again, and as the coachmanpulls up at the Catherine Wheel, the lawyer desires thecaptain not to stare at the widow ; the captain threatensto send the lawyer to a place where legal documents arenot of the faintest use ; the lawyer threatens the captainmeanwhile, if he moves a finger, with an immediateaction for assault. Upon this the captain, not being aman of immediate action, subsides, and the Exeter Fly THE EXETER ROAD 95 enters upon the most perilous part of its journey. Nowthe snow falls as it should at Christmas time, when menare seated round blazing fires in snug inn parlours, andnot braving the blasts in antediluvian flying coachman foreseeing the worst, and that everymoment the snowfall is heavier, tries to churn his horsesinto a canter as the gloom of a winters afte
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