[He] had scarcely left the room, when Adeline observed a party of horsemen enter theinn-yard, and she had no doubt these were the persons from whom they fled.
1839,Charles Lever, chapter 26, inThe Confessions of Harry Lorrequer[2], Dublin: W. Curry, page199:
I immediately opened the door and stepped out into theinn-yard, crowded with conducteurs, grooms, andostlers, who, I thought, looked rather surprised at seeing me emerge from thediligence.
I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of theinn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard.
His heart beat at the sight of her, as though he were a young man and this his first assignation outside a cinema, in a Lyons Corner House . . . or in aninn yard in a country town where dances were held.
