a rock within half a cable ’s length of the ship ; but the windwindwas so strong , that we were drivendrivedirectly upon it , and immediately splitsplit.
Then at the door of the castle the rector had shakenshakehands with his father and mother , his soutane flutteringflutterin the breezebreeze, and the car had drivendriveoff with his father and mother on it .
Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man 's are to a man , but because a new and powerful interest boreborethem down and drovedrivethem out of his mind for the time -- just as men 's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises .
It would not be proper , for some reasons , to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in those seas ; let it suffice to informinformhim , that in our passagepassagefrom thence to the East Indies , we were drivendriveby a violent stormstormto the north-west of Van Diemen ’s Land .
CHAPTER I Chiswick Mall While the present century was in its teens , and on one sunshiny morning in June , there drovedriveup to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton 's academy for young ladies , on Chiswick Mall , a large family coach , with two fat horses in blazing harness , drivendriveby a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig , at the rate of four miles an hour .
The Old Man drovedriveon to the house with his own luggage , and Happy Jack followedfollowto take charge of the team ; but the remainder of the Happy Family unobtrusively took the measuremeasureof the foreign element .
And yet here was Matthew Cuthbert , at half-past three on the afternoon of a busy day , placidly drivingdriveover the hollow and up the hill ; moreover , he wore a white collar and his best suit of clothes , which was plain proof that he was going out of Avonlea ; and he had the buggy and the sorrel mare , which betokened that he was going a considerable distance .
But no kind Familiar at that time appearing , and the chaise which they had orderedorder, drivingdriveup to the door , Montraville and his companion were obliged to take leaveleaveof Chichester and its fair inhabitant , and proceedproceedon their journeyjourney.
Arrivingarriveat the town late the previous evening , he had been drivendriveup from the steamboat in a carriage , from which he had been able to distinguishdistinguishonly the shadowy outlines of the houses along the street ; so that this morning walkwalkwas his first opportunity to see the town by daylight .