Arriving arrive at the town late the previous evening , he had been driven drive up from the steamboat in a carriage , from which he had been able to distinguish distinguish only the shadowy outlines of the houses along the street ; so that this morning walk walk was his first opportunity to see the town by daylight .

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 inform inform him , that in our passage passage from thence to the East Indies , we were driven drive by a violent storm storm to the north-west of Van Diemen ’s Land .

On the 5th of November , which was the beginning of summer in those parts , the weather being very hazy , the seamen spied spy a rock within half a cable ’s length of the ship ; but the wind wind was so strong , that we were driven drive directly upon it , and immediately split split .

Then at the door of the castle the rector had shaken shake hands with his father and mother , his soutane fluttering flutter in the breeze breeze , and the car had driven drive off with his father and mother on it .

The market carts were going go through the gates ; there was one laden with casks , and driven drive by an old man , with a boy beside him .

CHAPTER I Chiswick Mall While the present century was in its teens , and on one sunshiny morning in June , there drove drive up 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 , driven drive by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig , at the rate of four miles an hour .