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You and Mademoiselle Rignaut must come. I can give you half an hour to get ready more, if you want it." "What larks!" Lady Anne exclaimed. "Can I come in a traveling dress?" "You can come just as you are," Julien replied. "One visits these places just as one feels disposed. I'll be off and get a taximeter automobile instead of this thing, and come back for you whenever you say."
At any rate, his clothes had been made by a strongly American New York tailor, and upon the strength of them a taxi-man had assumed politely but firmly that the shillings on his taximeter were dollars, an incident that helped greatly to sustain the effect of Mr. Direck, in Mr.
Kennedy paid the cheque, which by this time had mounted like a taximeter running wild, and we drifted into the dining-room, a rather attractive hall, panelled in Flemish oak with artificial flowers and leaves about, and here and there a little bird concealed in a cage in the paper foliage.
That afternoon then he stepped out of the hôtel and engaged a fiacre a taximeter would be of no use, Paul thought. Tearing through the streets at break-neck speed annihilated distance rather than time. He told the driver to take him anywhere he pleased, and leaned back listlessly as he was piloted slowly through the avenues. Paris, beautiful Paris, always intoxicated Paul.
The words of the man at the Astor, and still more the episodes of the family friend from Missouri and the taximeter cab, had shown him that this thing was on a different plane from anything that had happened to him before. It was a fight without the gloves, and to a finish at that. But he meant to see it through. Somehow or other those tenement houses had got to be cleaned up.
After considerable difficulty, owing to the narrowness of the air-shaft, Kennedy managed to pick up the loose ends of the wire which had been led out of the little window at the base of the shaft, and had attached it to a couple of curious arrangements which he had brought with him. One looked like a large taximeter from a motor cab; the other was a diminutive gas-metre, in looks at least.
Towards midnight of September 29th the journalists were seated in an open taximeter cab, in a brilliantly lighted square, which some little time before had been swept of rioters rioters from the Berlin police point of view being any one, man, woman, or child, who is, with guilty or innocent intent, it makes no difference, in or near a theatre of disturbance.
The way I got to watch the clock like it was a taximeter the whole time I'm out anywheres. It's the limit. Even Max Meltzer gimme the laugh to-day." "You'd never hear me say watch the clock if you'd keep company with a boy like Max Meltzer. A straight, clean boy with honest intentions by a girl lookin' right out of his face.
We had been walking for some time slowly side by side, and we came now to a standstill. Louis held up his hand and called a taximeter. "Monsieur goes somewhere to sup, without a doubt," he remarked. I remained upon the pavement. "Really, I don't know," I answered undecidedly. "There is a great deal of truth in what you have been saying.
"I guess that's about the size of it," he said. Curtis smiled, too. This needless blurting out of confidences to a cabman was the one folly essential to a complete restoration of his wits. "Wait for me," he said. "I may be only a minute or two, and I shall want you to take me right back to the point I came from." The man nodded, and turned to set the time index of the taximeter.
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