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that ought to be indicted; as disturbers of the peace of mankind; as restless, bustling, busy, horn-blowing contrivances, quite beneath the dignity of men, and only suited to giddy girls that did nothing but chatter and go a-shopping. We know nothing about coaches here, sir, John would say, if any unlucky stranger made inquiry touching the offensive vehicles; we dont book for em; wed rather not; theyre more trouble than theyre worth, with their noise and rattle. If you like to wait for em you can; but we dont know anything about em; they may call and they may nottheres a carrierhe was looked upon as quite good enough for us, when I was a boy. She dropped her veil as Hugh climbed up, and while he hung behind, and talked to Barnaby in whispers. But neither he nor any other person spoke to her, or noticed her, or had any curiosity about her; and so, an alien, she visited and left the village where she had been born, and had lived a merry child, a comely girl, a happy wifewhere she had known all her enjoyment of life, and had entered on its hardest sorrows. |
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