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Updated: May 26, 2025
Carriage? Carriage? Carriage?" screamed a score of hackmen's voices, as the passengers came out on the sidewalk. Mr. Rockharrt beckoned the best-looking turnout and handed his granddaughter into it. "Drive to St. L 's Hospital," he said. The hackman touched his hat and drove off. In less than fifteen minutes he drew up before the front of St. L 's.
The shame of the wretched woman herself, living in a state of open criminality from year to year; the grossness of Hackman in his proposal to make this abandoned woman his wife; the strong probability that his object might have been the not uncommon, though infinitely vile one, of obtaining Lord Sandwich's patronage, by relieving him of a connexion of which that notorious profligate, after nine years, might be weary all characterise the earlier portion of their intercourse as destitute of all pretence to honourable feelings.
I stayed here to tell you that the hackman who brought you here got a chance to make a little extra by taking some white ladies home and said for you to stay here until he got back. He won't be gone but a few minutes."
Indeed, it called for a man much darker than myself, and close examination of it would have caused my arrest at the start. In order to avoid this fatal scrutiny on the part of railroad officials, I arranged with Isaac Rolls, a Baltimore hackman, to bring my baggage to the Philadelphia train just on the moment of starting, and jumped upon the car myself when the train was in motion.
The name of Ford had impressed him if it hadn't the hackman, and though he, too, was new to the town he bade Leslie: "Go ahead! Call him up, if there is such a man." With a glance of angry contempt Leslie put the receiver to his ear and rang up "Dad;" only to hang it up again in disgust, as the answer came back: "Line's busy!"
And as I walked up a street I thought that a tornado had broken loose and that I was in the center of it. I called a hackman, for my reading taught me what to do, and I told him to drive me to the Rookery. He rattled away and came within one of being upset by other vehicles, and I yelled at him to be more particular, but on he went, paying no attention to me.
A moment passed, with fear thick at my heart; then he was back again. He gave the direction to the driver before he got in, and the cab turned and was rattling down the street, with a speed that suggested that the hackman was at last stirred to excitement by the name of our final destination. We two looked into each other's face. "You would better drop me at Montgomery," Johnny said.
It was dark when we arrived; and, but for the presence of another friendly gentleman, I should have yielded myself a helpless prey to the first overpowering hackman, who insisted that I wanted to go just where I didn't. Putting me into the conveyance I belonged in, my escort added to the obligation by pointing out the objects of interest which we passed in our long drive.
Uncle Wellington did not know the street and number, and the hackman had to explain to him the mystery of numbered houses, to which he was a total stranger. "Where is he from?" asked the hackman, "and what is his business?" "He is f'm Norf Ca'lina," replied uncle Wellington, "an' makes his livin' w'itewashin'." "I reckon I knows de man," said the hackman. "I 'spec' he 's changed his name.
Clare turned round from paying the hackman, there was nobody in view but Mr. Adolph himself, conspicuous in satin vest, gold guard-chain, and white pants, and bowing with inexpressible grace and suavity.
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