Nothing irradiated it; to the eye of the magician in character, if not to the ordinary observer, the expression enthroned there was absolute submission to and belief in a little assortment of forms and habitudes.
At first not a soul appeared who could enlighten him as he desired, or seemed likely to appear that night.

But presently a slight noise of laboring wheels and the steady dig of a horse's shoe-tips became audible; and there loomed in the notch of the hill and plantation that the road formed here at the summit a carrier's van drawn by a single horse.

When it got nearer, he said, with some relief to himself, "'Tis Mrs.Dollery's--this will help me." The vehicle was half full of passengers, mostly women.

He held up his stick at its approach, and the woman who was driving drew rein.
"I've been trying to find a short way to Little Hintock this last half-hour, Mrs.Dollery," he said.

"But though I've been to Great Hintock and Hintock House half a dozen times I am at fault about the small village.