[Isopel Berners by George Borrow]@TWC D-Link bookIsopel Berners CHAPTER XV 5/9
I will tie the horses amongst those trees, and then we will all betake us to the hollow below." "And what's to become of my chaise ?" said the postillion, looking ruefully on the fallen vehicle.
"Let us leave the chaise for the present," said I; "we can be of no use to it." "I don't like to leave my chaise lying on the ground in this weather," said the man, "I love my chaise, and him whom it belongs to." "You are quite right to be fond of yourself," said I, "on which account I advise you to seek shelter from the rain as soon as possible." "I was not talking of myself," said the man, "but my master, to whom the chaise belongs." "I thought you called the chaise yours," said I.
"That's my way of speaking," said the man; "but the chaise is my master's, and a better master does not live.
Don't you think we could manage to raise up the chaise ?" "And what is to become of the horses ?" said I.
"I love my horses well enough," said the man; "but they will take less harm than the chaise.
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