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And still she went up and down, enlarging, diminishing, heaving her breath and waving her chin around, and saying, in broken utterances, while a hackman on her right held his whip in her auditor's face, crying, "Carriage, sir? Carriage, sir?" "Why didn' he rin agin a man, sur! I I oh! I wish Mr. Ristofalah war heer! to teach um how to walk! Yer frind, sur ixposing me!"
On this the officer, whose name was Hackman, and who was evidently of a fantastic and violent temperament, rushed from England in a state of desperation, flew over to Ireland, threw up his commission, and took orders in the church.
"I only want to go home to Crystal Bay, and to my mother," said Freda, and she briefly explained the circumstances. "Well, it's too bad, but I'm afraid you can't get back to Crystal Bay to-night," declared the hackman. "The last train has gone." "The last train gone!" gasped Freda. "Oh, what am I to do?" "Now don't you worry a mite," replied Dick.
And while the three wait to have their outlines thus inadequately sketched, the hackman waits, too, he of a more persistent hope than his fellows who have gone heavily rolling away to the stable, it being now six o'clock and this the last train. Lydia was a young woman of fervid recognitions.
It was lovely, of course, but depressingly dark. We got one of the big windows open, and let some stale damp air out and some fresh damp air in. Then, having despatched our hackman for certain necessities, Alicia and I turned and stared at each other, another Alicia and Sophy staring back at us from a dim and dusty mirror opposite.
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.
But he makes all his calculations with the nicest precision, and goes darting in and out among a Broadway confusion of busy craft with the easy confidence of the educated hackman. He never makes a mistake.
They alighted at an old red railroad station, were seized upon by a hackman in a coonskin coat, and thrust into a carriage that threatened to fall to pieces on the frozen macadam road.
The thought affected him like an electric shock. "You are certain of what you say?" asked Mr. Lane, turning to the hackman he had employed. "Certain," was answered positively. "Is there a police officer near at hand?" was the next inquiry. This was intended as no threat; and Murphy understood its meaning. The eyes of Mr. Lane were fixed on his face, and he saw in it a guilty change.
We drove on down the lane, eyed somnolently by spotted cows and incurious sheep, and all the way Miss Emily talked. She was almost garrulous. She asked the hackman about his family and stopped the vehicle to pick up a peddler, overburdened with his pack. I watched her with amazement. Evidently this was Mr. Staley's Miss Emily. But it was not mine. But I saw mine, too, that morning.
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