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Presently a man came out, and handing his fare to the hackney-coachman, turned and went back into the house. The latter, gathering up his reins, gave the whip to his horses, and, wheeling round, came back by the Rue Chartres. As he passed me, I glanced through the open windows of his vehicle. It was empty. She had gone into the house, then.
Rat—tat—ta-ra-ra-ra-ra-rat—knocked a hackney-coachman at Kitterbell’s door, in imitation of a gentleman’s servant, just as Dumps reached it; and out came an old lady in a large toque, and an old gentleman in a blue coat, and three female copies of the old lady in pink dresses, and shoes to match.
I saw nothing of him on leaving the Rotundo. Perhaps he meant to meet me there or at my hotel; but how was I to get back to either of these places without leaving my post? I was perplexed as to how I should communicate with D'Hauteville. It occurred to me that the hackney-coachman I had not yet dismissed him might remain and watch the house, while I went in search of the Creole.
I did not refuse them, nor shall you refuse me now. I always said to Mr Trotter, 'Go to a lawyer; and if he had taken my advice he would have done well. I recollect, when a hackney-coachman smashed the panel of our carriage 'Trotter, says I, 'go to a lawyer; and he very politely answered, 'Go to the devil! But what was the consequence! he's dead and I'm bumming.
Add to this that he inherited a splendid constitution, with an unlimited capacity for enjoyment, and we have a fair idea of Henry Fielding at that moment of his career, when with passions "tremblingly alive all o'er" as Murphy says he stood, "This way and that dividing the swift mind," between the professions of hackney-writer and hackney-coachman.
Bartrand's: how will you make out now that Bartrand begins with a p, and ends with a t, now?" said the hackney-coachman to Betty, who was standing at the door. "Pertrant! why," cried Betty, "what would you have?" "Silence! O silence!" said Miss Warwick; and she continued reading "Subscriptions received at Mrs. Bertrand's." "Pertrant, you hear, plockhead, you Irishman!" cried Betty Williams.
In most houses all had retired to rest only here and there was a light still seen, most persons slept, even those whose sense of duty should leave banished the god of sleep: thus sat a poor hackney-coachman, aloft upon his coach-box, before the house where he awaited his party, and enjoyed, the reins wound about his hand, the much-desired rest.
Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest indication. Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman.
The two first we met were walking arm-in-arm, in very close and friendly conference; they informed us that one of them was intended for a duke, and the other for a hackney-coachman.
Then there was Tom Jarrot, the hackney-coachman, who was pitched off the box against yonder curbstone, and broke his leg. It was a pity he didn't break his neck, for he was hanged within the year. Another instance was that of Toby Tanner " "No more of this," interrupted Trenchard; "where is the boy?" "Not far hence," replied Wild. "After all our pains we were near losing him, Sir Rowland."
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