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Updated: June 18, 2025
Forty years ago, such vehicles, only a little changed from the original type, were common enough in Havana itself. About that time, or a few years earlier, the four-wheeler began to supplant them for city use. There is a technical difference between the original type of volante and its successor which, though still called a volante was properly called a quitrin.
He couldn't understand the extraordinary mess of dead flowers there seemed to be everywhere; he couldn't understand why there should be police officers in his room; he couldn't understand why one of these should be sent for a four-wheeler and a stretcher; and he couldn't understand what heavy article they seemed to be moving about in the kitchen his kitchen....
It was he who gave me the information about Lord Saltire's feelings." "I see. By the way, that last letter of the Duke's was it found in the boy's room after he was gone?" "No; he had taken it with him. I think, Mr. Holmes, it is time that we were leaving for Euston." "I will order a four-wheeler. In a quarter of an hour we shall be at your service. If you are telegraphing home, Mr.
I admit and enjoy the poetry of the hansom; I admit and enjoy the personality of the true cabman of the old four-wheeler, upon whose massive manhood descended something of the tremendous tradition of Tony Weller. But I am not so certain as I should like to be, that I should at that moment enjoy the personality of the Copt.
As far as he was concerned he would willingly have dispensed with the tram which they met at the end and the antique four-wheeler in which they completed their journey to the river. They found a waterman's skiff at the stairs, and sat side by side in the stern, looking contentedly over the dark water, as the waterman pulled in the direction of the Swallow, which was moored in the tier.
I hailed a hansom, but the cabby refused to take the three of us, upon which Kaffar offered to go in another; but I dared not risk him out of my sight, so we got into a rumbling old four-wheeler, and I offered the cabby a sovereign if he would get me at the address I gave him in half-an-hour. "Couldn't do it for ten sovereigns, sir," said the cabby.
'Where shall we drive to? 'Say Clapham Junction. They entered the four-wheeler, and, as soon as it began to move out of the station, Mrs. Maskell leaned back.
The cabbies looked at one another and shook their heads; it chanced that none of them had been on that particular rank at that time. But the waterman said: "'Old on I bet 'e's the bloke wot old Bill Stammers took. Yorkey was fust on the rank, but the bloke wouldn't 'ave a 'ansom wanted a four-wheeler, so old Bill took 'im.
But he was gone: to reappear, a minute later, with a face whiter than ever. "The mistress wants you at on'st, sir, if you'll follow me. William, run out and see if you can raise another cab four-wheeler." "What, at this time of night?" answered William. "Get along with you!" "Do your best, lad." Mr. Horrex appealed gently but with pathetic dignity.
A policeman at the corner spoke to the driver of the four-wheeler, gave a sign of assent, and the four-wheeler went straight onwards into a medley of wood-blocks, which was all that was left of Fulham Road. The hansom followed intrepidly, and then its three occupants were conscious of a sudden halt. 'Bobby wants to know where you're going to, said the driver, opening the trap.
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