It would have been pleasant to take the refreshment of brushes and cold water, for his first step; but it must have been a pleasure paid for; so he did not go into the house.

For the same reason he did not agree to the offer of the stage-driver to carry him and his baggage to the end of his journey.

He looked about for some more humble way of getting his trunk thither, meaning to take the humblest of all for himself.

But porters seemed all to have gone off to breakfast or to have despaired of a job.

None were in sight.
Only a man was shuffling along on the other side of the way, looking over at the stage-coach.
"Here, Jem -- Tom -- Patrick!" -- cried the stage-driver, -- "can't you take the gentleman's trunk for him ?" "Michael, at your service, and if it's all one t' ye," said the person called, coming over.