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On account of the driver, though of course he could not understand them, they had subdued their voices, and Reuben's sudden action had not been noticeable. "This one piece of sisterly kindness," he pleaded. "It shall be as you wish," Miriam replied, her face cast down. "Thank you, a thousand times. Avanti, cocchiere!"
This is a four-page paper; and as it is set in long primer leaded and has a page of advertisements, there is no room for the crimes, disasters, and general sweepings of the outside world thanks be! Today I find only a single importation of the off-color sort: Una Principessa che fugge con un cocchiere Il MATIN ha da Berlino che la principessa Schovenbare-Waldenbure scomparve il 9 novembre.
Now it became evident that the leading horse could barely stagger another fifty yards, notwithstanding the inhuman efforts of the cocchiere to make the most of the poor brute's failing energies. At last the animal stumbled and fell, nearly pulling the driver off his perch. It was sad, but he had more than earned his price, for Palermo lay far behind.
"My friend," said Dubois, standing up in the small carriage and leaning against the driver's seat, "I offered you twenty francs if you crossed the city quickly. I will make it forty for another mile at the same pace. See, I place the money in your pocket." "It will kill my horse, signorina." "Possibly. I will buy you another." The cocchiere thought that this was a lady of strange manner.
To which I may add nevertheless that since one ever supremely invoked intensity of impression and abundance of character, I feasted my fill of it at Monte Oliveto, and that for that matter this would have constituted my sole refreshment in the vast icy void of the blighted refectory if I hadn't bethought myself of bringing with me a scrap of food, too scantly apportioned, I recollect very scantly indeed, since my <i>cocchiere</i> was to share with me by my purveyor at Siena.
"Is is this is it Lady Mount-Rhyswicke?" he stammered pitifully. She opened the door. "Yes. Will you get in? We'll just drive round the block if you don't mind. I'll bring you back here in ten minutes." And when he had tremulously complied, "Avanti, cocchiere," she called to the driver, and the tired little cab-horse began to draw them slowly along the deserted street.
While Ferralti was expressing his astonishment at so "unexpectedly" meeting again his American friends, Uncle John discovered their English speaking cocchiere, Frascatti Vietri, lolling half asleep on the box of his victoria. "Would your energy like to drive us this morning?" he asked. "It is my duty, signore, if you wish to go," was the reply. "Then you are engaged.
Sarebbe partita col suo cocchiere. La Principassa ha 27 anni. Twenty-seven years old, and scomparve scampered on the 9th November. You see by the added detail that she departed with her coachman. I hope Sarebbe has not made a mistake, but I am afraid the chances are that she has. There are several fires: also a couple of accidents. This is one of them: Grave disgrazia sul Ponte Vecchio
Dubois had evidently offered his cocchiere a lavish bribe for a quick transit through the city, and the Italian was determined to earn it. Although he had a good start, and his horse was accustomed to negotiating the main thoroughfare at a rapid pace, nevertheless the half-starved animal was not able to maintain a high rate of speed for more than a few minutes.
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