"If every passenger could use his arms as you do there would soon be an end to stopping coaches.

I will see what he has got about him, and will come up and let you know, Squire, the first thing in the morning." "I will send Knapp down," John Thorndyke said, as they drove homewards.
"I am rather curious to know if this fellow is the same Mrs.Cunningham wrote about.

I will tell him to take Peters along with him." "I hardly see that there can be any connection between the two.
Highwaymen don't go in for house breaking.

I think they consider that to be a lower branch of the profession." "Generally they do, no doubt, Mark; but you know I told you that the chief at Bow Street said that he had a suspicion that the highway robbers and the house breakers who have been creating so much alarm are the same men." "It is curious that they should have happened to light on us, father, if they were intending to break into our house." John Thorndyke made no reply, and in a few minutes drove up to the house.

Their return, a couple of days before they were expected, caused great satisfaction to Mrs.Cunningham and Millicent.