[In the Irish Brigade by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link book
In the Irish Brigade

CHAPTER 10: Kidnapping A Minister
23/23

My boat is always retained at a price that suits me well, and I get so much extra for every voyage I make.

No, sir, thank you; I will take nothing for myself, but if you like to give half a guinea to the crew, to drink success to you, I will not say no." The party made no stay at Etaples, but at once ordered a chaise and post horses.

Then, changing at every post house, and suffering vastly less discomfort than they experienced in the journey to Rye--the roads being better kept in France than they were on the English side of the channel--they arrived in Paris at eleven o'clock next day..


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books