“What an excellent device,” said he, “the use of a sheepskin for carriages. How very comfortable they make it;⁠—impossible to feel cold with such precautions. The contrivances of modern days indeed have rendered a gentleman’s carriage perfectly complete. One is so fenced and guarded from the weather, that not a breath of air can find its way unpermitted. Weather becomes absolutely of no consequence. It is a very cold afternoon⁠—but in this carriage we know nothing of the matter.⁠—Ha! snows a little I see.”

“Yes,” said John Knightley, “and I think we shall have a good deal of it.”