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Marie gave the cocher a piece of two francs, and they turned away on foot. The pear-shaped one looked at the coin in his fat hand as if it were something unclean and contemptible something to be despised. He glanced at the dial of his taximeter, which had registered one franc twenty-five, and pulled the flag up. He spat gloomily out into the street, and his purple lips moved in words.
After all, Psmith was not like any ordinary person. There would be no question of charity. Psmith had invited him to the flat in exactly the same spirit as he had invited him to his house for the cricket week. 'You know, said Psmith, after a silence, as they flitted through the streets in the taximeter, 'one lives and learns.
She was so touched by his curt story, and by the grotesquerie of his appearance in the faint light from the exterior lamp which lit the dial of the taximeter, that she lost control of herself. And the man gave a sob, or possibly it was only a gulp to hide a sob. And she leaned against him in her thin garments. And he clinked and jingled, and his breath smelt of beer.
I fancy, Comrade Windsor, that all may yet be well. What steps do you propose to take by way of self-defence?" "Keep out in the middle of the street, and not go off the Broadway after dark. You're pretty safe on Broadway. There's too much light for them there." "Now that our sleuth-hound friend in the taximeter has ascertained your address, shall you change it?" "It wouldn't do any good.
After all, perhaps, it was a phase of snobbery to dislike being seen with him something of that same feeling which she had never failed to remark in him. "If you please," she answered. "I am going to take a taximeter at the Park gates." "I will walk with you as far as there," he said. He tried to talk to her on ordinary topics, but he felt at once a disadvantage.
Perhaps to him the most astonishing part was that he found himself continually looking at the clock, counting almost the minutes until it was possible for him to start on this little expedition! Julien found a taximeter automobile and, punctually at the time appointed, drove to the little milliner's shop in the Rue St. Antoine.
"My acquaintance with him was of the slightest. It is true that I came here to lunch today without knowing what had happened. It has been a shock to me, and I do not wish to talk about it, and I will not talk about it, for the present." She was deaf to their further questions. The hotel clerk handed her into a taximeter cab, and gave the address to the driver.
In the shadow of the Elevated there was standing a taximeter cab. "Taxi, sir?" said the driver, as they approached. "We are giving you a great deal of trouble," said Billy. "You must be losing money over this job. All this while you might be getting fares down-town." "These meetings, however," urged Psmith, "are very pleasant." "I can save you worrying," said Billy.
She drew a deep breath. "Yesterday evening," she said, "I saw them together in a taximeter cab. They were obviously on their way to some theatre." She fixed me with her eye. "Reginald," she said, "you must go and see her the first thing to-morrow." "What!" I cried. "Me? Why? Why me?" "Because you are responsible for the whole affair. You introduced Douglas to her.
I did pick up a lady there. I took her along to the General Post Office, and waited while she went in. Then " "Wait a minute," interrupted Foyle. "How long was she in there?" "Ten minutes as near as a touch, according to the way the taximeter jumped while I was waiting. When she came out she asked me if I could take her to Kingston. I said yes.
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