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 .
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 .
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 .