Carriages & coaches : their history & their evolution (1912)
Straus, Ralph, 1882-1950 · London : Martin Secker · leaf 246
Barrier de Clichy ; then Eastwardalong the Outer Boulevard, what horses and whipcordcan do ! Thus Fersen drives, through the ambrosial night.Sleeping Paris is now all on the right-hand of him ;silent except for some snoring hum : and now he isEastward as far as the Barrier de Saint-Martin ;… … Si THE AGE OF TRANSITION 209 Insides, hastily packs itself into the new Berline ; twoBodyguard Couriers behind. The Glass-coach itself isturned adrift, its head towards the City ; to wanderwhither it lists,—and be found next morning in aditch. But Fersen is on the new box, with its bravenew…
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