its owner went downstairs into the courtyard, got into his carriage, and drove away. not many people had talked with him at the reception; he had stood in a little space apart, and monseigneur might have been warmer in his manner. it appeared, under the circumstances, rather agreeable to him to see the common people dispersed before his horses, and often barely escaping from being run down. his man drove as if he were charging an enemy, and the furious recklessness of the man brought no check into the face, or to the lips, of the master. the complaint had sometimes made itself audible, even in that deaf city and dumb age, that, in the narrow streets without footways, the fierce patrician custom of hard driving endangered and maimed the mere vulgar in a barbarous manner. but, few cared enough for that to think of it a second time, and, in this matter, as in all others, the common wretches were left to get out of their difficulties as they could.