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They said they knew the cab was McGovern's, and they wanted to know where he was, and why he wasn't on it; they wanted to know where Gallegher had stolen it, and why he had been such a fool as to drive it into the arms of its owner's friends; they said that it was about time that a cab-driver could get off his box to take a drink without having his cab run away with, and some of them called loudly for a policeman to take the young thief in charge.
A short argument with a second cab-driver, who distrusted his appearance, was cut short by a deposit of five shillings as a guarantee of good faith, and the superintendent also began the journey. Behind him a third cab carried the man who had been so deeply interested in the bookseller's window. Grave Street, Whitechapel, is not a savoury neighbourhood.
Winkle, who had been anxiously waiting the arrival of their illustrious leader, crowded to welcome him. 'Here's your fare, said Mr. Pickwick, holding out the shilling to the driver. 'You are mad, said Mr. Snodgrass. 'Or drunk, said Mr. Winkle. 'Or both, said Mr. Tupman. 'Come on! said the cab-driver, sparring away like clockwork. 'Come on all four on you.
Cold head and warm heart, you know; humanitarian considerations cannot be thrust aside by a community that prides itself on being truly civilized. I trust I have made myself intelligible?" "You always do. But why should I incommode myself to please your progeny, or even my own? And I don't like the kind of warm heart that subordinates my concerns to those of a cab-driver.
He was bidding somebody to tell a cab-driver to wait for him at the foot of the bridge. The next minute, Neale heard a key plunged into the outer door before it turned, he, following out a scheme which he had decided on during his long watch, had leaped behind the screen that stood near the furnace.
That's as much as I can tell you, and I'm certain I'm right. He was the last fare I took up at night. The next morning master gave me the sack said I cribbed his corn and his fares. I wish I had." I gathered from this that the crook-backed man had been a cab-driver. "Why don't you speak?" he asked, suspiciously. "Has she been telling you a pack of lies about me?
"You have classified him," I cried with joy. "You have painted his portrait in the gallery of city types. But I must meet one face to face. I must study the Man About Town at first hand. Where shall I find him? How shall I know him?" Without seeming to hear me, the critic went on. And his cab-driver was waiting for his fare, too.
Action had cleared her brain, and she felt calm and self-possessed. She knew now exactly what she meant to say. The ladies were both out... the parlor-maid stood waiting for a card. Julia, with a vague murmur, turned away from the door and lingered a moment on the sidewalk. Then she remembered that she had not paid the cab-driver. She drew a dollar from her purse and handed it to him.
Every variety and type of countenance from the Parisian "Jakey" with villainous eyes, sharp features and black soaplocks, to the jolly old patriarch, gray and stout, and somewhat stiff in the joints, who has been a cab-driver for over forty years perhaps presents itself to your view.
I inquired. "Who knows?" said the cabman. "How is this?" said I, "he is Christ's poor, and he is taken to the station-house." "A stop has been put to that now, it is not allowed," said the cab-driver. On several occasions afterwards, I saw policemen conducting beggars to the station house, and then to the Yusupoff house of correction.
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