It was pleasant to see Dot, with her little figure, and her baby in her arms: a very doll of a baby: glancing with a coquettish thoughtfulness at the fire, and inclining her delicate little head just enough on one side to let it rest in an odd, half-natural, half-affected, wholly nestling and agreeable manner, on the great rugged figure of the Carrier. It was pleasant to see him, with his tender awkwardness, endeavouring to adapt his rude support to her slight need, and make his burly middle-age a leaning-staff not inappropriate to her blooming youth.
'It an't right for him to turn 'em up in that way!' said the astonished Carrier, 'is it?
Shortly after this, another, not knowing what had happened (for the
carrier still lay senseless), came with the same object of giving water to his mules, and was proceeding to remove the armour in order to clear the trough, when Don Quixote, without uttering a word or imploring aid from anyone, once more dropped his buckler and once more lifted his lance, and without actually breaking the second
carrier's head into pieces, made more than three of it, for he laid it open in four.
Kit inwardly resolved that he would never tempt a
carrier any more, save with an empty box; and having formed this Christian determination, he turned his thoughts to the second question.
Unless she could afford always to go in the coaches--and she felt sure she could not, for the journey to Stoniton was more expensive than she had expected--it was plain that she must trust to
carriers' carts or slow waggons; and what a time it would be before she could get to the end of her journey!
There was an instant of whizzing--a soft, though sudden, stop, and slowly the
carrier emerged upon another platform, another attendant raised the lid and Vas Kor stepped out at the station beneath the centre of Greater Helium, seventy-five miles from the point at which he had embarked.
But too much shot had been put on the
carrier, and she was exhausted before the shore was reached.
Moreover, I do not believe that any ornithologist would place the English
carrier, the short-faced tumbler, the runt, the barb, pouter, and fantail in the same genus; more especially as in each of these breeds several truly-inherited sub-breeds, or species as he might have called them, could be shown him.
I am glad to recollect that when the
carrier's cart was at the gate, and my mother stood there kissing me, a grateful fondness for her and for the old place I had never turned my back upon before, made me cry.
But there was a
carrier's cart to come immediately, on its way to the next town.
Winthrop, though possessed with a dim fear of dangers attendant on so long a journey, and requiring many assurances that it would not take them out of the region of
carriers' carts and slow waggons, was nevertheless well pleased that Silas should revisit his own country, and find out if he had been cleared from that false accusation.
They may prefer a system which would give unlimited scope to all nations to be the
carriers as well as the purchasers of their commodities.