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Melchior's Dream and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
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"'For,' said he, 'there will never be any peace while there are so
many of us in the coach; if a fellow had the rug and glass, and,
indeed, the coach to himself, he might drive and bow and talk with the
best of them; but as it is, one might as well go about in a wild-beast
caravan.'

"Godfather Time frowned, but shook his glass all the same, and away
they went at a famous pace. All at once they came to a stop.

"'Now for it,' says Melchior; 'here goes one at any rate.'

"Time called out the name of the second brother over his shoulder; and
the boy stood up, and bade his brothers and sisters good-bye.

"'It is time that I began to push my way in the world,' said he, and
passed out of the coach, and in among the crowd.

"'You have taken the only quiet boy,' said Melchior to the godfather
angrily. 'Drive fast now, for pity's sake; and let us get rid of the
tiresome ones.'

"And fast enough they drove, and dropped first one and then the other;
but the sisters, and the reading boy, and the youngest still remained.

"'What are you looking at?' said Melchior to the lame sister.

"'At a strange figure in the crowd,' she answered.

"'I see nothing,' said Melchior. But on looking again after a while,
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