checkstring

checkstring
a cord used by a passenger in a carriage to signal to the driver to slow down or go faster

Mrs Hurstpierpoint - the dowager of the gleaming brows - leaned forward all at once in the carriage and pulled the checkstring attached to her footmans arm.


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