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Updated: May 26, 2025
"It is unpardonable neglect on my part," said Nekhludoff. "That is the whole trouble," the justiciary said, smiling and looking at his watch. There was only three-quarters of an hour left to the latest hour fixed in Clara's appointment. "You can apply to a lawyer, if you wish. It is necessary to find grounds for appeal. But that can always be found. To the Dvorianskaia," he said to the cab-driver.
Their only companion in the place was a cab-driver, who had just finished a meal, and was now nodding into slumber over his plate and cup. Reardon ordered fried ham and eggs, the luxury of the poor, and when the attendant woman was gone away to execute the order, he burst into excited laughter. 'Here we sit, two literary men! How should we be regarded by
"Ah, a few hours outside in the cold snow is enough to make the strongest man tremble, sir; and it lies so deep in places that you have to come along at a snail's pace. But I'll tell you about this business. A fortnight ago I was at a cabstand at the West End, talking to a cab-driver, when some drops of rain came down.
I said to myself: 'Whew! the mantua-maker is presenting his bill! Madame cried and went on like mad; but, pshaw! when the master really begins, there's no one like him. There isn't a cab-driver in Paris who's his equal for swearing." "And M. Van Klopen?" "Oh, he's used to such scenes!
A good governor in a little island may be a very bad governor in a large island, as a good cab-driver might make a bad four-in hand man; thus our old governor would have no practical knowledge of the country, but would depend upon prejudiced accounts for his information.
Report to the Yard directly she returns, and keep a sharp look-out." "Very good, sir," said the cab-driver, and Foyle turned away to mount the steps of the house. The footman who answered the door replied that both his Grace and the Lady Eileen were out. He could not say when they would return.
I am all right, and everlastingly obliged to you, but I do not wish to be detained in Marseilles while the slow French law gets to work. So let him go. He is nothing a mere hireling, yes? And we sail to-morrow." "You've left your trademark on this chap," broke in Tagg. He was bending over a prostrate body, and the cab-driver was bewailing the plight of his voiturette.
Van goin' till I think he'll put him out of business 'n' say! but he cusses wicked when things don't go to suit him! "'Stick your knees in and keep your backbone limber! Hold his head up now at this jump don't drag at his mouth that way! Why! damn it all! . . . you haven't as good hands as a cab-driver, is the kind of stuff he keeps yellin' at poor Mr. Van.
That there are many on a road is no sign that the road is a right one; but it is rather an argument the other way; looking at the gregariousness of human nature, and how much people like to save themselves the trouble of thinking and decision, and to run in ruts; just as a cab-driver will get upon the tram-lines when he can, because his vehicle runs easier there.
The first made away with a quantity of copper wire from a building; and the second made a row because he was notified that he had contravened some regulations as to driving. He was a cab-driver. Then there is another who has been punished for begging, tramping the streets, and sleeping out at nights." "Well, he won't catch cold camping out, at any rate!
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