This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... paid to Mr. Anthony Skene of the New Inn, who was waiting to take passage also. Then he was hurried in; and, as he blessed his stars for such fair companionship, they started on their way. The journey to Plymouth is but twenty-two miles; and with John TwitchelFs horses, even with all the delays of John Twitchell's ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ... paid to Mr. Anthony Skene of the New Inn, who was waiting to take passage also. Then he was hurried in; and, as he blessed his stars for such fair companionship, they started on their way. The journey to Plymouth is but twenty-two miles; and with John TwitchelFs horses, even with all the delays of John Twitchell's duties and position, they were sure to arrive before three in the afternoon. Mr. Skene was far too well bred to obtrude himself on the young gentlewoman--if she were a gentlewoman--whom kind fate had placed so near him. He began, very carefully, with John Twitchell, and made himself as agreeable with him as he knew how. He talked to the lady--if she were a lady--through John Twitchell, so to speak; and watched all the time for one attention or another, which he might show to her, which might not be obtrusive, but such as a gentleman might offer without offence to the noblest lady of the land. Fortunately for him in this business, Anthony Skene was a gentleman. In the nobler and larger use of the word, John Twitchell was another; and he would have wrung Master Skene's neck for him, had he by sign or word offended the pretty young lady who sat behind the carter. So she was quite safe from any possible annoyance, even to her timidity; and so, of course, it happened that, before an hour was past, they were all three on excellent terms, and the barriers between their stations and hers were all comfortably broken down. Any question as to the young lady's name was so far solved as this, that John Twitchell called her "Miss "Waring;" and it appeared that she was going to hoiaunt, Mrs. Waring, in Plymouth. It was while John watered his horses at a wayside trough, and while Mr. Skene and Miss Waring walked on up the long hill together, that ...
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