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"Pity some one can't teach Thorndyke how to drive! He's a disgrace to the Four-in-hand!" It was Berenice! The sight of her in such intimate association with a man utterly distasteful to him was one before which he winced and suffered. He was aware of a new and altogether undesired experience.
So Maurice answered by declaring he knew a lady who drove not two, but four-in-hand, and when the leaders turned round and looked her in the face, gave a little nod, and said, 'I'm obliged for your civility. 'Oh! I wish I had heard that, cried Laura. 'Did you hear her saying she smoked cigars? Everyone cried out with horror or laughter.
The mountain wall seemed to utterly arrest progress, as it rose across the ascending valley through which the driver urged his "four-in-hand," and no way to pass beyond the next mountain ahead could possibly be discerned.
Now her gaze, shifting, had fastened upon his tie, which was undeniably quaint; a very large four-in-hand showing pictorially, as it seemed, a black sea holding for life a school of fat white fish. And then there came a lovely voice from the shadows lovely, but did it sound just a little hard?... "Perhaps you had better begin at the beginning, and tell me who you are, and what it is you want."
Jim, what has ever become of that girl you were so crazy about a couple of years ago? I guess maybe she didn't put a dent into your heart that a person could drive a four-in-hand into and never touch the sides, a regular Hoosac Tunnel. Then when she had you all ribbed up and done to a turn, she said, "I love Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Hawkins loves me. Good by, Jim; take care of yourself."
They compensated him for the slavish abasement of his whole neighbourhood under the hectoring of the grand new manufacture of wit in London: the inimitable Metropolitan PUN, which came down to the country by four-in-hand, and stopped all other conversation wherever it was reported, and would have the roar there was no resisting it.
And he hauled forth a pair of black-and-white trousers with checks as large as the squares of a chessboard, a blue cloth vest with white polka dots, and a long, gray Prince Albert coat, with mauve satin lapels. The shirt was pink and blue, stripes of each alternating, running cross-ways, a white collar, and a flaring red four-in-hand tie! "Great Scott, Adonis!" I cried. "Must I wear those?"
"By Jove, so he is," exclaimed Baldo. And, to Adrian's surprise, when the introductions were accomplished, and the invitation was repeated to him, Anthony at once accepted. "I 've given orders for my four-in-hand to come round here and pick us up," said Franco. "Shall we all go for a spin, and get an appetite for luncheon?" "In the afternoon, if there 's a breeze, I propose a sail," said Baldo.
At the top of the hill, however, they settled down into their swing once more. "Where on earth have they got to?" cried my uncle. "Can you make them out on the road, nephew?" We could see a long white ribbon of it, all dotted with carts and waggons coming from Croydon to Redhill, but there was no sign of the big red four-in-hand. "There they are! Stole away!
These outlooks, too, were useful in solving many of the social problems that afflicted the young men about town; the identity, for instance, of the occupant of the hansom who had just driven past, heavily veiled, together with her destination and her reason for being out at all; why the four-in-hand went up empty and came back with a pretty woman beside the "Tooler," and then turned up a side street toward the Park, instead of taking the Avenue into its confidence; what the young wife of the old doctor meant when she waved her hand to the occupant of a third-story window, and who lived there, and why None of their business, of course never could be but each and every escapade, incident and adventure being so much thrice-blessed manna to souls stranded in the desert waste of club conversation.
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