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There on the door was the name of the man I had hoped to find Professor Von Virchow. I paid the cabman, and knocked at the door with a beating heart. A sallow-faced girl opened the door, and asked my business. Was Professor Virchow at home? Yes, he was at home, but would be engaged for the next quarter of an hour; after that, he could see me on business connected with his profession.
Outside the station, then, her luggage having been stacked upon a cab, the lady parted from her companion with assurances, which were returned, that she should hope to improve the acquaintance. The address to which the French gentleman politely requested the cabman to drive, was that of a sound and old-established hotel in the neighborhood of the Strand, and at no great distance from the station.
"Sorry to keep you waiting," Johnny added aloud to the cabman. "Don't you worry about that, miss," replied the cabman civilly; "we are used to it. A shilling a quarter of an hour is what we charge." "Of all the damned silly tricks!" muttered Johnny to himself. Two small boys and a girl carrying a baby paused, interested. "Go away," told them the cabman. "You'll have troubles of your own one day."
I asked, after a pause during which Amedee seemed peacefully unaware of the rather concentrated gaze I had fixed upon him. "Of a kind. In speaking he employed many peculiar expressions, more like a thief of a Parisian cabman than of the polite world." "The devil he did!" said I. "Did he tell you why he wished to see the whole house? Did he contemplate taking rooms here?"
She breathed more freely, and for the first time for many months she really admired her son. She would have liked to have continued the scene on the same emotional scale, but he cut her short. Trunks had to be carried down and mufflers looked for. The lodging-house drudge bustled in and out. There was the bargaining with the cabman. The moment was lost in vulgar details.
He had already made up his mind about "dear little Clary," and the thing might as well be done at once. None of the girls were at home. Miss Underwood and Miss Bonner had gone up to London to see Sir Thomas. Miss Clarissa was spending the day with Mrs. Brownlow. "That will just be right," said Ralph to himself, as he ordered the cabman to drive him to the old lady's house on the Brompton Road.
Very few of the streets in any part of the town are broad; all of them seem like lanes to a Petersburger, and "they are forever going up and down," as a Petersburg cabman described the Moscow hills to me, in serious disapproval. He had found the ground too excitingly uneven and the inhabitants too evenly dull to live with for more than a fortnight, he confessed to me.
What do you say, little woman?" "I say, Jerry," says she, speaking very slowly, "I say, if Mrs. Briggs would give you a sovereign every Sunday morning, I would not have you a seven-days' cabman again. We have known what it was to have no Sundays, and now we know what it is to call them our own.
"I only want some air." "But " "Leave me oh, do leave me alone!" He stopped, but stood staring at her in blank amazement. She dared not do anything. Leo Ulford stretched out his arm towards the cabman, who bent down from his perch. He took the money, looked at it, then bent down again, showing it to Leo and muttering something. Doubtless he was saying that it was not enough.
He belongs to a cabman; but I always speak to him, and he never attacks me." "Even a lion itself would flee from a maid in the pride of her purity," laughed Bertie. "But, Miss Leigh, must we positively go shivering across this bleak desert again? isn't there some sheltered way through the wood?" "There certainly is; but it is three miles round, and, I dare say, full of drifts."
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