Only the dread of bringing unpleasant notoriety to these thoroughly respectable young women saved this scoundrel from a horsewhipping at the hands of their indignant male relatives.
Horsewhipping would be no more than the offending editor deserved.
It was up to them to either take the horsewhipping, or to rebel and overthrow the tyranny of these two bandits.
He had a vivid recollection of schoolfights, and of horsewhipping a scandal-monger, much later in life.
Weighing all these considerations carefully in his mind, the shrinking editor decided to sit down under his horsewhipping in silence and resignation.
Of course the coachman has turned his head away from his master's house on the left to the horsewhipping on the right.
