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Walmsley," she began, and her voice seemed to come from her forehead it was so shrill and nasal; "how long will it take me to get to St. Pancras?" I looked at the four-wheeler, on the roof of which another servant was now arranging a typewriter in its tin case. "I should say about thirty-five minutes in that!" I replied. "A taxi would do it in a quarter of an hour." "None of your taxis for me!"
The cab will be a four-wheeler, and there will be plenty of room." Gold Street was a short street of private houses of very fair size and of a half-vanished pretension to gentility. We drove slowly through, and Leamy had no difficulty in pointing out the house wherein he had been paid five pounds for carrying a bag.
'Ned, says he, I am going home. I had the good luck to sight a four-wheeler and got him in just in time. His legs were beginning to give way. In our hall he fell down on a chair, and I'll never forget father's and mother's amazed, perfectly still faces as they stood over him. They couldn't understand what had happened to him till I blubbered out, 'Maggie got drowned, yesterday, in the river.
Fionaghal, the Fair Stranger, had not, then, been wandering in the enchanted land of dreams, but toiling home in a humble four-wheeler from the scene of her anxious labors? He would have slunk away rapidly but for an untoward accident.
The landlady brought her up the soda-water, and seeing what a state her lodger was in, she placed it on the table without a word, without even referring to the notice to quit she had given overnight; and steadying her voice as best she could, Kate asked her to call a cab. 'Hansom, or four-wheeler? 'Fo-four wheel-er if you please.
When not far from the entrance, however, another cab a four-wheeler discharged its occupant at a point nearer to the building than where he waited. It was a woman. She paid the cabman, who touched his hat with quick and grateful emphasis, and, wheeling his old crock round, clattered away.
They crossed the bridge and passed by Marlborough House, and so got into Pall Mall. 'How shall we go? the Dictator asked, glancing at the passing cabs, some flying, some crawling. 'Four-wheeler? Sarrasin suggested tentatively. 'No; I don't seem to be in humour for anything slow and creeping, the Dictator said gaily. 'I feel full of animal spirits, somehow.
"Auntie has thought of sending you your hat and coat. I've got them outside in the cab." Mrs. Fyne looked mechanically out of the window. A four-wheeler stood before the gate under the weeping sky. The driver in his conical cape and tarpaulin hat, streamed with water. The drooping horse looked as though it had been fished out, half unconscious, from a pond. Mrs.
What Fyne precisely meant by "wrangling" I don't know, but I had no doubt that these two had "wrangled" to a profoundly disturbing extent. How much the other was affected I could not even imagine; but the man before me was quite amazingly upset. "In a four-wheeler! Take him on board!" I muttered, startled by the change in Fyne. "That's the plan nothing less.
The ladies obeyed. In due course Love in Babylon was excavated, chapter by chapter, and Aunt Annie held it safely once more, rumpled but complete. By the luckiest chance an empty four-wheeler approached. The sisters got into it, and Aunt Annie gave the address. 'As quick as you can, she said to the driver, 'but do drive slowly.
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