" Pompey, waiting to drive the doctor home, caught the words, spoken as he descended the steps to enter the carriage, and came forward eagerly.

I was crossing the stable-yard where I had gone to order the carriage for my aunt, when an English groom, suddenly emerging from the harness-room, touched his cap, saying "Have you 'eard, sir, of the awful affair up yonder?" "Of what?"

"If there is the least fear of anything serious I will send the carriage at once for Doctor Russe.

Happily it was a lovely warm night; and as we got near we saw lots of people walking who had left their carriages some little distance off, hopelessly wedged in a crowd of vehiclesthe women in light dresses, with flowers and jewels in their hair.

We should have been quite helpless if we had fallen upon any enterprising tramps, who could easily have stopped the carriage and helped themselves to any money or jewels they could lay their hands on.

I was walking about the Champs-Elysees and Faubourg St. Honore on the morning of the 16th of May, and saw all the carriages, our own included, waiting at the Ministry of the Interior, where the conseil was sitting.

You can't walk more than three miles here, and if you hire a carriage you will find that you can't ride less than that distance.

No?" "No; your brother took an hotel carriage, and I drove in my own trap.

Ch'ang-tsü said, "Who is the person driving the carriage?" "Confucius," answered Tsz-lu.

After eight years of this life, lit up here and there by gleams of social brilliancy, we find her carriage, on the 12th of July, 1824, suddenly confronted by a funeral.

" "If he rides, can he not follow the carriage?" "Will you do that, Halifax?" asked my host.

Atalanta has quarters provided for her at the Vernon Livery, and one of the grooms has orders to bring the carriage to the door at two o'clock every afternoon.

Christ kept no carriage.

Some days before the meeting of the Congress the old Emperor had been wounded in the arm by a nihilist, Nobiling, who Fired from a window when the Emperor was passing in an open carriage.

He even set up a carriage in the fulness of his vain-glory, though he nearly starved the horses which drew it; and, as the ungreased wheels groaned and screeched on the axle-trees, you would have thought you heard the souls of the poor debtors he was squeezing.

"I hear the carriage.

I folded my arm only a little more tightly for answer, and said, "Mr. Wilton will be here soon; he is getting the carriage, to take your sister home.

" Dotty staggered against a girl who was drawing a baby-carriage, but recovered herself.

At first I woke to think there were rickshaw boys dragging rubber-tyred carriages along the avenues of the town, until I found that Morogoro boasted no rickshaws and no bells for native feet.

The voice immediately caught the young gentleman on foot, who approached the carriage.

" On August 6, 1800, Charles Lamb wrote to Coleridge: "I would pay five-and-forty thousand carriages to read W.'s tragedy, of which I have heard so much and seen so little."

I met a travelling carriage on the Plaza de la Constitution Its owner must have divined my haste, for he offered assistance, and on hearing my story, and whither I was bound, he gave up his intended journey, decided to remain a few days longer in Pampeluna and placed his carriage at my disposal.

"And thirty more, I hope," continued Emily, as a servant announced the several carriages at the door.

I was nursing my disappointment and watching the disappearing carriage, when Mr. Knipp, the brewer, with his load of empty kegs drew up, and asked what I was thinking about so hard.

Presently he observed another carriage advancing by the opposite road.