I fear they won't like to face the wind they've only had their backs to yet.

I can't make out whether your driver is half dead or half drunk or more than half frozen; but Aggie and I will take care of them, and if he tumble off, nobody will be the worse." "What a terrible country!" said the lady to herself.

"The coachmen get drunk! the boys are prigs! there is no distinction between the owners of the soil and the tenants who farm it! and it snows from morning to night, and from one week's end to another!" Aggie had taken the head of the near horse, and Cosmo took that of the off one.

Their driver said nothing, letting them do as they pleased.

With some difficulty, for they had to be more than ordinarily cautious, the road being indistinguishable from the ditches they knew here bounded it on both sides, they got the carriage round.