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He had been shown in the drawing rooms, on his return, and she had stopped a moment to look him over he was a sort of mummy. She was not hoping to find Bramwell Winton one of these elect. But he was a hive that had not been plundered. She reflected, sitting bent forward in the hansom, her face determined and unchanging. She did not undertake to go forward beyond the hundred pounds.

A little later, when she went into the showroom with a hat for Miss Bellman, she encountered Madame bonneted, cloaked, panting, with moist eyes and raddled cheeks, preparing to take a slow airing in a hansom.

To write of wild and whirling things in your books, but in public life to be associated with nothing more wild and whirling than a shirt-fronted eye-glassed hansom; to be at heart an Alastor, but in appearance a bank-clerk, delights an age of paradox. But, though it may pay for a while, it will, I am sure, prove a disastrous policy in the long run. The poet unborn shall, I am certain, rue it.

Then I remembered that of my original character, one part remained to me: I could write my own hand; and once I had conceived that kindling spark, the way that I must follow became lighted up from end to end. Thereupon, I arranged my clothes as best I could, and summoning a passing hansom, drove to an hotel in Portland Street, the name of which I chanced to remember.

So they drove in a hansom, through a night which washed the fog away, to Kennington Road, and whilst Polly kept her place in the vehicle Gammon ran upstairs. There lay the letter on his dressing-table. He hastened down with it, and before handing it to its writer kissed the envelope. "Go along!" exclaimed Polly, in high good humour, as she reached out with eager fingers.

Not a cab was to be seen anywhere, not even a stray hansom crawling home from clubs or theatres; and Ernest set out with a rueful countenance to walk as best he might alone through the snow all the way to Holloway.

You care for me a little, I know. I will teach you how to make that little sufficient." "You came to tell me this?" "I came for you," he declared fiercely. The hansom sped through the crowded streets. Anna suddenly leaned forward and looked around her. "We are not going the right way," she exclaimed. "You are coming my way," Courtlaw answered. "Anna," he pleaded, "be merciful.

"Well, Coroner Busby will git to the bottom of it putty quick. He told Lem Hansom he knew what he was doin'." "He must know, if he's as slick at tryin' folks as he is in a hoss dicker," returned an old farmer who had made a trade of steeds which had proved unprofitable for him. Margaret was shown to a chair and sat down, with Raymond beside her.

The footman was despatched in a hansom cab, with instructions to take the telegram to the head office of the Submarine Telegraph Company, and there to arrange prepayment of the reply. "I rather expect Mr. Meredith," said Sir John to the butler, who was trimming the library lamp while the footman received his instructions. "Do not bring coffee until he comes." And Sir John was right.

'If you didn't mind leaving me like that, he followed her up with his arraignment, 'you might at least have considered Lady John. 'Is she here with you? Jean stopped by the sofa near the window. 'No, he said curtly. 'My place was nearer than this and she was tired. I left her to get some tea. We couldn't tell whether you'd be here, or what had become of you! 'Mr. Trent got us a hansom.