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Updated: May 27, 2025
You wouldn't like that, eh?" sneered Tom. "Would you?" "Well, I've had my share of it. And she ain't. Still I ... Just what would it be worth to you to have me out of the way?" "Oh, Tom Tom " I cried. But Obermuller got in front of me. "It would be worth exactly one dollar and seventy-five cents. I think it will amount to about that for cab-hire.
It costs a good deal; no one thanks you, and nobody defrays cab-hire, and makes up for lost time, temper, and patience to you it don't pay in a general way; sometimes it will; for instance, when I left the embassy, I made thirty thousand pounds of your money by one operation.
While I as dressing, I dived about for my money in an ocean of papers. This scarcity of specie will give you some idea of the value of that squandered upon gloves and cab-hire; a month's bread disappeared at one fell swoop. Alas! money is always forthcoming for our caprices; we only grudge the cost of things that are useful or necessary.
And I was to lay siege to Foedora's heart, in winter, and a bitter winter, with only thirty francs in my possession, and such a distance as that lay between us! Only a poor man knows what such a passion costs in cab-hire, gloves, linen, tailor's bills, and the like. If the Platonic stage lasts a little too long, the affair grows ruinous.
After that she dressed and went out into society the society of which she had boasted as being open to her to the house of some hanger-on of some embassy, and listened, and whispered, and laughed when some old sinner joked with her, and talked poetry to a young man who was foolish and lame, but who had some money, and got a glass of wine and a cake for nothing, and so was very busy; and on her return home calculated that her cab-hire for the evening had been judiciously spent.
Cab-hire is another thing which seems to me disproportionately dear, as horses are very cheap; there are no small fares, half-a-crown being the lowest "legal tender" to a cabman; and I soon gave up returning visits when I found that to make a call in a Hansom three or four miles out of the little town cost one pound or one pound ten shillings, even remaining only a few minutes at the house.
"Where am I to drive, sir?" demanded the man, who, by this time, had taken off his white gloves. "Confound it!" Eugene said to himself, "I am in for it now, and at least I will not spend cab-hire for nothing! Drive to the Hotel Beauseant," he said aloud. "Which?" asked the man, a portentous word that reduced Eugene to confusion.
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