Sometimes, too, Polly would announce a post-chaise, and the telescope decide whether the postboys wore the blue or the buff.

A mixed crowd of French and English still surrounded the chaise, to which a couple of postboys were attaching the relay: the French no longer furious, now that an apology had been offered and the flag hidden, but silent and sulky yet; the English inclined to think the young lieutenant hardly served, not to say churlishly.

The postboys were growling, and she half feared that Endymion would abandon the journey for the day.

He took command; he cross-examined landlord and postboys, pooh-poohed their objections, extracted from them in half-a-dozen curt questions more information than, five minutes before, they were conscious of possessing, to judge from the scratching of heads which produced it; finally, he handed Dorothea into the chaise, sprang in himself, and closed discussion with a slam of the door.

The postboy's leg was broken, and the carriage was sadly damaged.

The use of the existing road by the stage, mail carrier, or postboy in passing over it as others do is all that would be thought of, the jurisdiction and soil remaining to the State, with a right in the State or those authorized by its legislature to change the road at pleasure.

I look forward to writing to you from New York. 'OLIVER GOGARTY.' Two evenings were passed pleasantly on the composition and the copying of this letter, and, not daring to entrust it to the postboy, he took it himself to Bohola; and he measured the time carefully, so as to get there a few minutes before the postmistress sealed up the bag.

For this reason Nick Muggins, the postboy, was a great favourite with him.

The oak is a fairer symbol of the German nation than the German postboy, from which original most foreigners appear to judge of us.

"The postboy is not so weary but that he can whistle."Ib.

It was now between ten and eleven; but the servant who rode armed with them, according to the not unnecessary usage of the times, thought that with a little judicious bribing of postboys they might easily reach Mardykes Hall before three o'clock in the morning.

As the steaming horses stopped within a few paces of the chariot, the gentleman seated in the latter saw one of the ostlers go up to the post-chaise and heard him say, 'Soon back, Jimmie?' 'Ay, and I ha' been stopped too,' the postboy answered as he dropped his reins.

The postboy grinned, and sitting easily in his pad prepared to enjoy the situation.

They were Methodists,' the postboy answered contemptuously, 'Scratch wigs and snuff-colour.

'Half a mile this side of Oxford, your worship,' the postboy answered, knuckling his forehead.

True, the outline of her cloak, and the indications of a slender, well-formed shape which it permitted to escape, satisfied him that the postboy had not deceived him; but that his companion was both young and handsome.

Now Sir George had a glimpse of the black mass through the gloom, now it seemed to be gaining on him, now it was gone, and now again he drew up to it and the dim outline bulked bigger and plainer, and bigger and plainer, until he was close upon it, and the cracking whips and the shouts of the postboys rose above the din of hoofs and wheels.

A moment, and he made out the bobbing figure of the leading postboy, and, drawing his pistol, cried to him to stop.

'He has paid the postboys and we ride.

Once seen they came on swiftly, and he was still standing gaping in wonder when a carriage and pair, a postboy riding and a servant sitting outside, swept by, dazzling him a moment; the next it was gone, whirled away into the darkness.

Mr. Pomeroy, irritated by his long absence, had gone to the stables to learn what he could from the postboy.

Away went Gilpin, and away Went postboy at his heels, The postboy's horse right glad to miss The lumbering of the wheels.

Away went Gilpin, and away Went postboy at his heels, The postboy's horse right glad to miss The lumbering of the wheels.

[Illustration] Six gentlemen upon the road, Thus seeing Gilpin fly, With postboy scampering in the rear.

Mr. Ferret, however, pressed onwards with his habitual energy and perseverance; and, spite of all elemental and postboy opposition, succeeded in accomplishing his journey in much less time than, under the circumstances, could have been reasonably expected.