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jeopardy, and she, too, re-enters the coach. The lawyer, 

 seeing himself in danger of being divided from the 

 proprietress of a snug estate in Devonshire, free from 

 encumbrances, and perhaps divided from her for ever, 

 takes his heart out of his boots, recites a by-law to the 

 coachman on the subject of catastrophes, and drivers 

 committed for manslaughter, and sits by the widow's 

 side ; the captain, for his very uniform's sake, feels 

 bound to follow the lawyer's suit ; and amidst faint 



St. Anne's Gate, Salisbury. 



hurrahs from half-frozen potboys, the Exeter Fly starts 

 gallantly on its last flight. At Egham, one mile three 

 furlongs on, it begins to snow again, and as the coachman 

 pulls up at the Catherine Wheel, the lawyer desires the 

 captain not to stare at the widow ; the captain threatens 

 to send the lawyer to a place where legal documents are 

 not of the faintest use ; the lawyer threatens the captain 

 meanwhile, if he moves a finger, with an immediate 

 action for assault. Upon this the captain, not being a 

 man of immediate action, subsides, and the Exeter Fly 



