fiacre-drivers

Updated: July 20, 2025

"My friend here is the victim of a curious annoyance;" and he stated the case in language so sympathetic and decorous as to restore some small shreds of the colonel's self-respect. "Ah," said their new acquaintance, who was mercifully not a man of humor, or too polite to seem so, "that's another trick of those scamps of fiacre-drivers.

William Dean Howells - A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories