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_ -RSB- Jeanie pursued her journey without farther inquiry , for there was nothing in Dick 's manner that inclined her to prolong their conference . A painful day 's journey brought her to Ferrybridge , the best inn , then and since , upon the great northern road ; and an introduction from Mrs. Bickerton , added to her own simple and quiet manners , so propitiated the landlady of the Swan in her favour , that the good dame procured her the convenient accommodation of a pillion and post-horse then returning to Tuxford , so that she accomplished , upon the second day after leaving York , the longest journey she had yet made . She was a good deal fatigued by a mode of travelling to which she was less accustomed than to walking , and it was considerably later than usual on the ensuing morning that she felt herself able to resume her pilgrimage . At noon the hundred-armed Trent , and the blackened ruins of Newark Castle , demolished in the great civil war , lay before her . It may easily be supposed , that Jeanie had no curiosity to make antiquarian researches , but , entering the town , went straight to the inn to which she had been directed at Ferrybridge . While she procured some refreshment , she observed the girl who brought it to her , looked at her several times with fixed and peculiar interest , and at last , to her infinite surprise , inquired if her name was not Deans , and if she was not a Scotchwoman , going to London upon justice business . Jeanie , with all her simplicity of character , had some of the caution of her country , and , according to Scottish universal custom , she answered the question by another , requesting the girl would tell her why she asked these questions ?