The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

[Werner Presber]

The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

by Thomas de Quincey

"(...) Whither can I fly for shelter? Is a prison the safest retreat? 
or a
lunatic hospital? or the British Museum?" I should have replied, "Oh
no; I'll tell you what to do. Take lodgings for the next forty days on
the box of his Majesty's mail. Nobody can touch you there. If it is by
bills at ninety days after date that you are made unhappy - if noters
and protesters are the sort of wretches whose astrological shadows
darken the house of life--then note you what I vehemently protest:
viz., that, no matter though the sheriff and under-sheriff in every
county should be running after you with his _posse_, touch a hair
of your head he cannot whilst you keep house and have your legal
domicile on the box of the mail.(...)

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