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And almost immediately, on the Piazza dei Cinquecento, in front of the railway station, he climbed into one of the small open cabs ranged alongside the footwalk, and placed the valise near him after giving the driver this address: "Via Giulia, Palazzo Boccanera."* * Boccanera mansion, Julia Street.
Two cabs were secured for the little party, and with their kind protectors they were taken back to Charing Cross. Eventually they got seats in a comfortable carriage, and found themselves going back again to Merrifield. "Well, it has been a dull sort of thing altogether," said Clara Sawyer. "What meddlesome people!" "Don't!" said Kathleen. "Don't what, Kathleen O'Hara?
They were up to the business; they had done it before; they knew how essential it was to engage half a dozen cabs off different parts of the rank, so as to be sure of getting one; and, not for the first time in their lives they "bagged" three or four porters in advance with a similar object.
We do what we can in secret towards balancing the budget. We retrench on our charities, save on our coals, screw on our cabs, drink the sourest of Bordeaux instead of more generous vintages, dispense with the cream which makes tea palatable, and systematically sacrifice substantial comforts that we may swagger successfully in the face of a critical and carping society.
The next day the army of midsummer travel was immobilized to let the other army move. No more wild rushes to the station, no more bribing of concierges, vain quests for invisible cabs, haggard hours of waiting in the queue at Cook's.
And so, catching something of the general enthusiasm, my friend Murray Jameson, who by the way is something of a sport, and I, who by the same token am not, found ourselves driving a very smart trap out Michigan avenue, amidst a throng of coaches, cabs, breaks and buggies, people and conveyances of every description beautiful women beautifully costumed, young men, business men, toughs and wantons all on their way to Washington Park, and all in a fever of excitement over the big race to be run that afternoon the great American Derby.
If all the cabs in London were put end to end, he paused between the words, gravely, 'what do you think, Miss. Morgan, would be the total length? 'Oh, I have no idea, Mr. Barmby. 'Forty miles positively! Forty miles of cabs! 'How do you know? asked Nancy. 'I saw it stated in a paper. The girls glanced at each other, and smiled.
She hopped into a taxi and flew off in one direction; he dived into a crowd and bolted in another, and before you could say Jack Robinson he was doubling and twisting, jumping into cabs and jumping out again all to gain time, of course, for the woman to do what he'd put her up to doing and leading me the devil's own chase through the devil's own tangle till he was ready to bunk for the Embankment.
Johnson has been down the street many a time with ragged shoes, and a bundle of penny-a-lining for the 'Gent's Magazine. You literary gents are better off now eh? You ride in your cabs, and wear yellow kid gloves now."
The quiet of the place was seldom disturbed, except by the grocer and butcher, who came to receive orders, or the cabs, hackney-coaches, and Bath-chairs, in which the ladies took an infrequent airing, or the livery-steed which the retired captain sometimes bestrode for a morning ride, or by the red-coated postman who went his rounds twice a day to deliver letters, and again in the evening, ringing a hand-bell, to take letters for the mail.
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