The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the
guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the
guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.
Up goes Tom, the
guard catching his hatbox and holding on with one hand, while with the other he claps the horn to his mouth.
Through this we passed into an enclosure beneath the seats, where we found a number of other prisoners herded together under
guard.
That's just what I've come to ask you, sir," the
guard replied.
I was not good enough to be a
guard and lie fat in the sun, but, when we made war, Tiger-Face was glad to take me along.
This," said the
guard, pointing to an old-fashioned Edinburgh and London mail, which had the steps down and the door open.
whispered the communicative
guard in the ear of the culprit.
The interview could not have lasted over ten minutes when Sorav summoned an aid whom he instructed to record us properly, and then escort us to the quarters in the palace which are set aside for aspirants to membership in the palace
guard.
He goes for ten years," replied the
guard, "which is the same thing as civil death, and all that need be said is that this good fellow is the famous Gines de Pasamonte, otherwise called Ginesillo de Parapilla.
Any one who happened at that moment to contemplate that red simar -- the gorgeous robe of office -- and the rich lace, or who gazed on that pale brow, bent in anxious meditation, might, in the solitude of that apartment, combined with the silence of the ante-chambers and the measured paces of the
guards upon the landing-place, have fancied that the shade of Cardinal Richelieu lingered still in his accustomed haunt.
People who are arrested are placed between the six first
guards and the six last.
The Scoodlers led the captives away and shut them up in one of the houses, leaving only a single Scoodler to keep
guard.
A smart
guard jumped out, giving a whistle, and after him one by one the impatient passengers began to get down: an officer of the
guards, holding himself erect, and looking severely about him; a nimble little merchant with a satchel, smiling gaily; a peasant with a sack over his shoulder.
There are five of you, all told, on board,--driver, stoker,
guard, saloon attendant, and yourself.
They were our Horse
Guards, advancing to attack the French cavalry that was coming to meet them.
