# The Postillion — Lavengro character guide

> The Postillion in Lavengro by George Borrow.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** postillion

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

A coach driver who briefly interacts with Lavengro during his journey.

## In the story

### [XCVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xcvi)

His chaise is overturned by a fireball; he is injured but accepts Lavengro's help and shelter.

### [XCVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xcvii)

A well-made fellow of about thirty, initially suspicious but now friendly; he smokes a pipe, shares his theories about Lavengro and Belle being runaway gentry, and reveals he learned rhetoric from listening to his master's elocution lessons.

### [XCVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xcviii)

Narrates his personal story of serving an English family in Italy, describing the priest's manipulation and his own observations of religious hypocrisy.

### [XCIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xcix)

Narrates his experiences in Rome, resists conversion, and assists the young master.

### [The Servant's Tale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/c)

The former servant who narrates his life story, now working as a postillion.

### [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/i)

Sleeps through the hammering, awakens to find the chaise repaired, enjoys breakfast, and departs with gratitude.

### [XXIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxiii)

Recognizes the narrator, offers comfort and assistance, and arranges for him to work at the inn.

### [XXIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxiv)

The postillion joins the conversation, offering opinions on highwaymen and modern policing.

### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxviii)

Drives the man in black and Mr. Platitude to a mysterious house and recounts the gathering of clergymen and others.

### [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxix)

Expresses sorrow at the narrator's departure, invites him to his wedding, and drinks with him in the taproom.

### [The Spirit of Youth and the Road](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/xxx)

The postillion leads the assembled people at the inn in giving the narrator three cheers as he departs.

### [Subject of Gentility Continued](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lavengro_se/chapters/v-subject-of-gentility-continued)

Cited among those who can prize a gentleman despite seedy raiment, along with the young Irishman and his employer.

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