so-ho- then!" the near leader violently shook his head and everything upon it--like an unusually emphatic horse, denying that the
coach could be got up the hill.
Benedict, and the
coach plainly belongs to some travellers: I tell you to mind well what you are about and don't let the devil mislead you."
When a porter had put his luggage in the
coach, and received his fare, he turned round and was gone; and before my uncle had well begun to wonder what had become of him, half a dozen fresh ones started up, and staggered along under the weight of parcels, which seemed big enough to crush them.
Tom and his father arrived in town from Berkshire the day before, and finding, on inquiry, that the Birmingham
coaches which ran from the city did not pass through Rugby, but deposited their passengers at Dunchurch, a village three miles distant on the main road, where said passengers had to wait for the Oxford and Leicester
coach in the evening, or to take a post-chaise, had resolved that Tom should travel down by the Tally-ho, which diverged from the main road and passed through Rugby itself.
'Having too much money and nothing at all to do with it, they were paying a hackney
coach as I came up, sir.'
Our Jehu had carelessly driven over a heap of gravel and fairly capsized the
coach, with the wheels in the air and our heels where our heads should have been.
We come to the spot, sink down in the mire nearly to the
coach windows, tilt on one side at an angle of forty- five degrees, and stick there.
Sonya jumped out of the
coach and ran to the countess.
The
coach drove up, and the reverend gentleman (after waiting characteristically for the woman's ladder) mounted to his place on the roof, behind the coachman.
They had left the town by night; no one had seen them go; no one had met them on the road; the driver of no
coach, cart, or waggon, had seen any travellers answering their description; nobody had fallen in with them, or heard of them.
It was the afternoon
coach by which I had taken my place, and, as winter had now come round, I should not arrive at my destination until two or three hours after dark.
He was going to inquire at the place where the Oakbourne
coach stopped.