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By and by I saw the person I wanted. Said I, in a whisper, sitting down beside him, "House rent clerkship flour butter crackers and buckwheat; all for giving you a seat in an omnibus!" Didn't I know that "the fairy" was the nice old man with silver locks?
He was carrying a large portfolio under his arm, just like Lebrument. She jumped out of the carriage. "Henry!" she cried. He stopped, astonished: "Jeanne! Here all alone! What are you doing? Where have you come from?" Her eyes full of tears, she stammered: "My husband has just got lost!" "Lost! Where?" "On an omnibus." "On an omnibus?" Weeping, she told him her whole adventure.
We'll go up town with Judd Bennett in the omnibus, and you'll know how a rapid-fire machine gun sounds. I want to go straight to the 'Herald' office," he finished, with a suddenly darkening brow. "After all, there may be some explanation," Meredith suggested, with a little hesitancy. "H. Fisbee might turn out more honest than you think."
"We are freed from the rattling granite pavement of only a century ago, which made the occupant of an omnibus feel like a fly inside of a drum; from the domination of our local politics by ignorant foreigners; and from country roads that either filled the eyes, lungs, and hair of the unfortunates travelling upon them with dust, or, resembling ploughed and fertilized fields, saturated and plastered them with mud.
Turning sharply, he saw rising gradually higher and higher up the omnibus steps a top hat soiled and dripping with snow, and under the shadow of its brim the short-sighted face and shaky shoulders of Professor de Worms. He let himself into a seat with characteristic care, and wrapped himself up to the chin in the mackintosh rug.
Day-pupils not using the school omnibus must be accompanied to and from the school, and here an interesting point is to be touched upon. In so far as was practicable, the Lycee for girls has been modelled on the plan of the time-honoured establishments for boys.
"There is no suspicious looking person in sight at present," Thorndyke said, and then asked: "Which way do you think of going?" "It seems to me," I replied, "that my best plan would be to take a cab or an omnibus so as to get out of the neighbourhood as quickly as possible.
It exposes her, not only to insult, but often to positive danger. It is very much the custom in small country places for two ladies to take evening walks; but it is better to have the protection of a gentleman if convenient. It is better for a lady to decline entering a car or an omnibus that is already full. She must either stand up or force some polite gentleman to do so.
After remaining more than five hours in the great temple, I turned my back upon the richly laden stalls and left the Crystal Palace. On my return home I was more fortunate than in the morning, inasmuch as I found a seat for my friend and myself in an omnibus. And even my ride in the close omnibus was not without interest.
If I cross the road at the bottom of Parliament Street by myself I may be run over by a hansom cab or even an omnibus, without the slightest compunction on the part of the police on duty there. But if Chiltern happens to be with me the whole of the traffic going east and west is stopped, and a policeman with outstretched hands stands waiting till we have gained the other side of the road.
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