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'Margaret, he said, 'I will not try to deceive you 'You may try, observed Mrs Milsom, 'but you will not succeed. 'Well, Archibald? Archibald fingered his collar. 'There was no taximeter accident. 'Ah! said Mrs Milsom. 'The fact is, I have been playing in a golf tournament. Margaret uttered an exclamation of surprise. 'Playing golf! Archibald bowed his head with manly resignation.
And such is the effect of a suggestion given under certain circumstances by a man of authority, that Priam Farll went straight along Victoria Street and at Sowter's famous one-price hat-shop did in fact buy himself a new hat. He then hailed a taximeter from the stand opposite the Army and Navy Stores, and curtly gave the address of the Grand Babylon Hotel.
Mrs Milsom did her celebrated imitation of the Gorgon, while Margaret, lightly humming an air, picked up a weekly paper and became absorbed in it. 'Margaret, let me explain, panted Archibald. Mrs Milsom was understood to remark that she dared say. Margaret's attention was riveted by a fashion plate. 'Driving in a taximeter to the ferry this morning, resumed Archibald, 'I had an accident.
Come along in my taxi and watch me chase a story." Stopping only to borrow fifty francs for expenses from the cashier's wicket, Martin hurried his friend into a taximeter cab and gave the brief direction: "Pont de Neuilly." Three-quarters of an hour later they had reached the bridge at the end of the long avenue of the suburb of Neuilly and had dismissed the cab.
It does not amuse me to see you come down to the level of these others, who while their morning away doing nothing. You are not at home amongst them. You have no place there. When you come to me as a young man in Society, you bore me." She stepped into the taximeter and drove away, with a farewell nod, abrupt although not altogether unkindly.
"I don't believe in subterfuge with a doctor," she said. Mrs. Chepstow came out of the house in Cleveland Square as the clocks were striking seven, stepped into a taximeter cab, and was hurried off into the busy whirl of St. James's Street, while Doctor Meyer Isaacson went upstairs to his bedroom to rest and dress for dinner. His clothes were already laid out, and he sent his valet away.
At the same instant the barbaric and repulsive creature's automobile, about as large as a railway carriage, drove up and forced my frail cab down the street. I had to wait, humiliated and helpless, the taximeter of my cab industriously adding penny to penny, while that offensive hag installed herself, with the help of the maid, the porter and two page-boys, in her enormous vehicle.
Scobell, but he was sorry that this should have happened. They went out on the street. A taximeter cab was standing by the sidewalk. They got in. Neither spoke. John was thoughtful and preoccupied. Mr. Parker, too, appeared to be absorbed in his own thoughts. He sat with folded arms and lowered head. The cab buzzed up Fifth Avenue.
On the other hand, Comrade Waller, who is a native of the spot, seems to find no difficulty in rolling to the office every morning. Therefore you follow me, Jackson? it must be in England. In that case, we will take a taximeter cab, and go out into the unknown, hand in hand, trusting to luck. 'I expect you could get there by tram, said Mike. Psmith suppressed a slight shudder.
It troubled me not in the least that my companion should be a maitre d'hotel. I did not hesitate for a second. "I'll come with pleasure, Louis," I said, "on condition that I am host. It is very good of you to take pity upon me. We will take this taximeter, shall we?" Louis bowed. Once more I fancied that there was something in his face which I did not altogether understand.
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