Coaching days and coaching ways . A Breakdown: Taking on the Mails. people who can afford to ride post. Amongst theseenvied ones of the earth is his Grace the Duke of Buck-ingham, who rides furiously by, scattering the mud farand wide on each side of him—his rich dress disorderedand travel-stained, his horse covered with foam—hisattendants spurring to keep up with his headlong paceand cursing the Bath Coach as they ride by it. HisGrace is making for Cliefden, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and of Love,5 12 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS which ladys husband he has just run through the rightbre
Coaching days and coaching ways . A Breakdown: Taking on the Mails. people who can afford to ride post. Amongst theseenvied ones of the earth is his Grace the Duke of Buck-ingham, who rides furiously by, scattering the mud farand wide on each side of him—his rich dress disorderedand travel-stained, his horse covered with foam—hisattendants spurring to keep up with his headlong paceand cursing the Bath Coach as they ride by it. HisGrace is making for Cliefden, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and of Love,5 12 COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS which ladys husband he has just run through the rightbreast and shoulder at Barne Elms ; her ladyship, who. True—every word of it. now rides by the Dukes side in a pages dress, havingshed the light of her graceful presence on the amiable THE BATH ROAD 13 formality; in her office of page holding her lovers horse ashe exchanged thrusts with her better half. Delightfulsociety ! So picturesquely free from care and scruple !—who would not have lived in those days ? The trav-ellers in the Flying Machines of Charles the Secondsday must have seen much of that brilliant, sparkling,outrageous society fly by them. That seems to me tohave been the chief advantage of the Flying flew by them—at least everybody who wasworth seeing. This Hounslow Heath, which the Flying Machine hasnow left behind it—the creaky, mud-covered old caravanis drawn up now outside the Inn, at Cranford, the horsesare in the stable feeding, the coachman with a pot of beerin his hand lying about his heroic resistance to six high-waymen—it seems to have been the province of coach-men at all periods to lie
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