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Updated: June 26, 2025
"The wild torrents of light, the passionate human music, the hansoms, the white shirts and shawled heads, the theatres " "Don't speak of them or you'll make me cry," said Rosalind. "The little suppers after the theatre " "Please don't," she cried, "it is cruel;" and I saw that her eyes were indeed glistening with tears.
George's drawing- room emptied itself; Paul was left alone with his hostess, to whom he explained the motive of his waiting. "Ah yes, some intellectual, some professional, talk," she leered; "at this season doesn't one miss it? Poor dear Henry, I'm so glad!" The young man looked out of the window a moment, at the called hansoms that lurched up, at the smooth broughams that rolled away.
He looked so forlorn and wretched that Hughie could not help pitying him, and felt in his pockets to see what money he had. All he could find was a sovereign and some coppers. 'Poor old fellow, he thought to himself, 'he wants it more than I do, but it means no hansoms for a fortnight'; and he walked across the studio and slipped the sovereign into the beggar's hand.
This idea took shape as he watched the carriages, the lines of scampering hansoms, the crowds waiting at theatre doors. Every man and every vehicle, every dandy and every urchin, represented some effort, if it were only at one end of the scale to be magnificent, at the other not to be hungry. No such notions had been fostered by days spent on the banks of the Blent. "What shall I do?
"I sent for a couple of hansoms long since," he said. "They are waiting outside now." And that seemed to settle the question. For all Jadwin's perseverance, the artist seemed for this time at least to have the better of the situation. You can get in with Aunt Wess' and me. There's plenty of room. You can't go home in this storm without an umbrella." Landry at first refused, haughtily.
She knew that I loved Elma and was also aware of the exciting events in Russia, Jack having told her of them during their long drives in hansoms when he went out with her to take the air. One day I received a brief note from the Princess in Petersburg, urging me to remain patient and saying Elma was quite safe and well. There were reasons, however, why she was unable to write, she added.
Everywhere are cars, carts, carriages; and the motorist whirs through the intersecting streets and round the corners, bent on suicide or homicide, and the kind old trolleys and hansoms that once seemed so threatening have almost become so many arks of safety from the furious machines replacing them.
Everything," she went on, "comes back. Besides," she wound up, "you know for yourself." He stood near her, his hands in his pockets; but not looking at her, looking hard at the tea-table. "Ah, I haven't your courage. Moreover," he laughed, "it seems to me that, so far as that goes, I do live in hansoms. But you must awfully want your tea," he quickly added; "so let me give you a good stiff cup."
'I always thought of you as and she gave a queer little laugh, 'as driving about London in hansoms, and working quite contentedly. I never imagined that you cared at all really, I mean, as I know now. Even right at the beginning that afternoon in Beaufort Gardens, I never imagined that. Indeed, I was afraid of you. 'Afraid! Drake echoed the word with an accent of wonderment.
His brow smoothed at once when he caught sight of them, and he admired their dresses, and escorted them up the celebrated marble stairs with youthful pride. 'I thought no one was going to supervene, he smiled. 'I was afraid you'd all been murdered in patent asphyxiating hansoms. I don't know what's happened to Twemlow. I must leave word with the people here which box he's to come to.
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