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THE GENEVA DILIGENCE.
About the hour when Roland was entering Nantes, a diligence, heavily loaded, stopped at the inn of the Croix-d'Or, in the middle of the main street of Chatillon-sur-Seine.
In those days the diligences had but two compartments, the coupe and the interior; the rotunda is an adjunct of modern times.
The diligence had hardly stopped before the postilion jumped down and opened the doors.

The travellers dismounted.

There were seven in all, of both sexes.

In the interior, three men, two women, and a child at the breast; in the coupe, a mother and her son.
The three men in the interior were, one a doctor from Troyes, the second a watchmaker from Geneva, the third an architect from Bourg.