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I am afraid I shall be late, and my friends will be anxious about me." "You will be late. You consider your friends at Bayswater, and you consider even the cabman's horse. You are charity itself. "But how?" "Let me see you before I go back to Normandy. Your papa likes to see you twice a week, I know. This is Monday night; will you come to see him on Thursday?" "If he wishes it." "He does wish it.
Reminiscences of coincidences, truth stranger than fiction, preindicative of the result of the Gold Cup flat handicap, the official and definitive result of which he had read in the Evening Telegraph, late pink edition, in the cabman's shelter, at Butt bridge. Where had previous intimations of the result, effected or projected, been received by him?
The London cabman's occupation consists in dodging thoroughfares under repair. Numbers of dingy streets have been flung about to help him. There is one of these in Bloomsbury, which was originally discovered by a student while looking for the British Museum.
There was a queer sort of a grin on the cabman's face, as he answered. "About five hundred yards, miss," he said. "Something seems to have gone wrong with them. So far as I can see the cab has lost a tire." The other cab had stopped, and something like an altercation was going on between the fare and the driver.
For a man in such straits as I now found myself, the hire of a lorry was a consideration; and yet even that I could have faced, if I had had anywhere to drive to after it was hired. From these extremities I was relieved by a seasonable offer, and I parted from the Genius of Muskegon for thirty francs. In a certain cabman's eating-house on the outer boulevard I got credit for my midday meal.
How can I pluck up courage to take the horse out of my hansom-cab, when I do not know whether my evolutionary watch is only a little fast or the cabman's a little slow? Suppose I say to a sweater, "Slavery suited one stage of evolution." And suppose he answers, "And sweating suits this stage of evolution." How can I answer if there is no eternal test?
I thought of getting back to the seat, but it occurred to me that if I pretended to be faint I might have a chance of escape. When I heard the cab stop I tried to rise, but I hadn't sufficient strength. But help was near. I heard the scraping of shoes on the leather top of the car, and presently the door opened and I saw a figure which I knew was not the cabman's.
From these extremities I was relieved by a seasonable offer, and I parted from the Genius of Muskegon for thirty francs. In a certain cabman's eating-house on the outer boulevard I got credit for my midday meal. Supper I was supposed not to require, sitting down nightly to the delicate table of some rich acquaintances. This arrangement was extremely ill-considered.
A ready retort trembled upon the cabman's tongue, but a glance into the savage blue eyes reduced him to fearful silence. Kerry entered the cab and banged the door; and the man drove off positively trembling with indignation. Deep in reflection the Chief Inspector was driven westward through the early morning traffic.
Beer-shops are numerous near the cab-stands; and the small change in the cabman's pocket often goes into their coffers, when it should be saved for the poor wife and children in his wretched home.
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