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"In the young gentleman's not at all, but still less in the fiacre-driver's. Well, good-night, Móczli." At these words Móczli leaped up from his chair and sprang after Márton. "Wait a moment: don't be a fool. Come with me. Take your seats in my fiacre. But the devil take me if I have seen, heard or said anything."
To see before me the assassins of the country, at a few steps, standing upright, in the insolence of a peaceful triumph, was beyond my strength: I could not contain myself. I drew out my sash. I held it in my hand, and putting my arm and head out of the window of the fiacre, and shaking the sash, I shouted, "Soldiers! Look at this sash. It is the symbol of Law, it is the National Assembly visible.
The people of Paris did not know that none of those young persons were admitted into the Queen's private circle of friends; the Queen went about Paris in disguise, and had made use of a fiacre; and a single instance of levity gives room for the suspicion of others.
A fiacre drove up, out of which got Marshal Ney in plain clothes, himself surprised by the everyday aspect of the place.
With her face to the dark sea and the sound of its waves in her ears, she recalled the old light-hearted days and the shrill admonitions of Mademoiselle Gautier. How often had she prophesied disaster for her charge among the rocks of Valpré! Chris smiled a little piteous smile. Ah, well! The fiacre jerked and jolted over the stones.
Impossible; and besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual running at full speed in pursuit of a fiacre, and the father would recognize him. At that moment, wonderful and unprecedented good luck, Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre.
The morrow came sunny and cloudless and the cicerone bowed to the ground, as he opened the door of the commodious fiacre. "Where shall I drive to, Sir?" "What were our plans, George?" said Sir Henry. "I think," replied George, "that we only formed one plan to change it for another. Let the cicerone decide for us."
Horse-flesh has gone down five hundred per cent. in the market in the last three days, and I was able to get a fiacre on quite reasonable terms." "Is it waiting here still? How extravagant, Cuthbert, it must have been here nearly an hour." "I should say I have been here over two hours and a quarter according to that clock." "Dear me, what will Madame Michaud think? Shall I tell her, Cuthbert?"
They drank some wine and conversed together in low tones. At 6.15 they quitted the café and rapidly jumped into an empty fiacre, being driven off in the direction of the Opera. So unexpectedly did they leave their seats that before my agent could hire another cab they had disappeared in the traffic, and although he drove after them as rapidly as possible, he failed to again catch sight of them.
On the road to Choissi, a fiacre, or hackney-coach, stopped, and out came five or six men, armed with musquets, who took post, each behind a separate tree. I asked our servant who they were imagining they might be archers, or footpads of justice, in pursuit of some malefactor. But guess my surprise, when the fellow told me, they were gentlemen a la chasse.
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