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Imagine my feelings when I saw our calèche, a mere ghost of its former self, dragged by four artillery horses and postilioned by two heavy dragoons.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)