Ay, but methinks you speak without the book, To place a four-wheel waggon in my look: Where will you have room to have the coachman sit? FRAN.

When they had got a short distance from the lodge she acquainted him with her intention of presenting him to Mrs. Fitzgerald, whither she had ordered the coachman to proceed.

We stopped on the way [they were not far from Wolfenbüttel] to give our horses a little bread, and our coachman drove to the side of the road to make way for carriages to pass.

The coachman, it should be said, was of that nation.

A man got up behind our carriage, and our coachman very naturally whipped him down.

The man followed us quietly for a while, but at length his wounded dignity overcame his patience, and he came up to our coachman and began to speak furiously on the impropriety of his having whipped him.

Finding he could make nothing of one who understood not what he said, he addressed himself to our friend Martha Towell, and said he knew he had done wrong; but the coachman should have told him to get down, which was customary in their country, and not to have whipped him.

M.T. was prepared to appease his wrath by a mild reply, which eased the poor man very much; otherwise I think we should have had more trouble with him; but he seemed to be quieted, and said, Teach your coachman to say, in French, "descendez.

" He descended with a good grace, and told his passengers to get down, while the coachman unharnessed his horses and went away shaking his cloak.

They had told the coachman to drive slowly; the journey lasted more than an hour.

The coachman, dismayed at the damage, bewailed it.

This true-hearted coachman answered me, "I know where the barricades are.

My coachman deposited me at the corner of Saint Eustache, and said to me, "Here you are in the hornets' nest.

My true-hearted coachman was waiting for me in the Rue de la Vrillière.

A new staff of house servants was installed, as follows: Aunt Delia, cook; Louisa, chambermaid; Puss, lady's maid to wait on the madam; Celia, nurse; Lethia, wet nurse; Sarah, dairymaid; Julia, laundress; Uncle Gooden, gardener; Thomas, coachman.

Thomas, the coachman, and I were fast friends.

Knowing all the servants, I was watching a chance to send word to the coachman, Alfred Dandridge, that I wanted him to tell my wife that I was not gone.

But the coachman had them well in hand and brought them in a short time to stand quietly.

certainly, I want him for a coachman; ours gets drunk, and my wife will not allow him to drive her.

If you should want a coachman, I should be glad if you would call down, as I have a good stock on hand of strong, healthy boys.

Instantly, upon seeing the state of affairs, Mrs. Jennings ordered her coachman to go for a physician, while she and her maid, whom she had brought with her, used every means to restore Hasty to consciousness, and in a short time they succeeded in their efforts.

Perhaps he had already taken his resolution, though he kept it a secret within his own breast; perhaps it might be the result of some sudden and momentary impulse; but one morning[a] he unexpectedly threw himself into a carriage with two horses standing at the gates of Whitehall; and, beckoning to six of his guards to follow, ordered the coachman to drive to the parliament house.

"It is no use, young fellow," laughed the coachman, who was familiar at least, if he was not drunk; "champagne won't make any difference; if you counted on that to get my passport, you reckoned without your host!""The devil I did," cried the poor young man, horrified to see his scheme fall through, and to think of the prodigious length of the bill he should have to pay for nothing.

"Others, have tried it on, but I am too wide awake by half," said the coachman, adding as he emptied the last bottle into his glass, "give me two ten-franc pieces and I will get you through.

""On the box?""Yes, idiot," said the coachman, growing more and more familiar; "I am going to get into the cab, now drive me wherever you please."