Their civility was maintained at the termination of the deadly work.

The old lord's bosom thanked the young one for not requiring entertainment and a repast; the young lord's thanked the old one for a strict military demeanour at an execution and the abstaining from any nonsensical talk over the affair.
A couple of liveried grooms at the horses' heads ran and sprang to the hinder seats as soon as their master had taken the reins.

He sounded the whip caressingly: off those pretty trotters went.
Mrs.Carthew watched them, waving to the bride.

She was on the present occasion less than usually an acute or a reflective observer, owing to her admiration of lordly state and masculine commandership; and her thought was: 'She has indeed made a brilliant marriage!' The lady thought it, notwithstanding an eccentricity in the wedding ceremony, such as could not but be noticeable.

But very wealthy noblemen were commonly, perhaps necessarily, eccentric, for thus they proved themselves egregious, which the world expected them to be.
Lord Levellier sounded loud eulogies of the illustrious driver's team.
His meditation, as he subsequently stated to Chillon, was upon his vanquished antagonist's dexterity, in so conducting matters, that he had to be taken at once, with naught of the customary preface and apology for taking to himself the young lady, of which a handsome settlement, is the memorial.
We have to suppose, that the curious occupant of the coach inside aroused no curiosity in the pair of absorbed observers.
Speculations regarding the chances of a fall of rain followed the coach until it sank and the backs of the two liveried grooms closed the chapter of the wedding, introductory to the honeymoon at Esslemont, seven miles distant by road, to the right of Lekkatts.