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Updated: July 21, 2025
Was it Kipling who wrote: "If you can order breakfast in your room and not feel reckless, If you can ride in taxis with aplomb, If you can read the menu and not the prices, Then, you're a qualified patrician, son."
She was not looking at them, but she gave the impression of listening to what they said. Again the face claimed Cynthia's attention. "Brother," she said softly to Lans, "is that a friend of yours? She looks mighty sad." Lans gave another sharp start and rather abruptly replied: "I knew her once. Come, little sister, that is our number being called. We must not hold up the line of taxis.
As the motors, taxis, cabs and vans had vanished from the streets, so the lively little steamers had left the Seine. The canal-boats too were gone, or lay motionless: loading and unloading had ceased. Every great architectural opening framed an emptiness; all the endless avenues stretched away to desert distances. In the parks and gardens no one raked the paths or trimmed the borders.
Among the friends of the Burtons was the Princess of Thurn and Taxis, who with her husband became one of Letchford's best patrons. The princess won Sir Richard's heart by her intelligence, her beauty and grace; and "his conversation was never so brilliant, and his witticisms were never so sparkling as in her presence."
Not knowing whether or no to manifest sympathy with this extinction, we approached the horse. It was a horse that "stood over" a good deal at the knee, and in the darkness seemed to have innumerable ribs. And suddenly one of us said: "Many people want to see nothing but taxis on the streets, if only for the sake of the horses." The cabman nodded.
Exchanging a "So long" with less fortunate members of the mess, you realise a vast difference in respective destinies. To-morrow the others will be dodging crumps, archies, or official chits "for your information, please"; to-morrow, with luck, you will be dodging taxis in London.
Would I meet him and talk it over, and if I was favorably impressed accompany him to the Kentucky mountains? We were sitting by a Fifth Avenue window as he outlined the matter with persuasiveness. The sky was drear with the ash gray of autumn. 'Busses, motors and taxis were trailing along in the same old hopeless monotony. At the thought of remaining here I sickened.
"Yes, do hurry! I want to hug you!" "Right-o!" said Archie. "I'll take two taxis." It is not far from Washington Square to the Hotel Cosmopolis, and Archie made the journey without mishap.
It's true there weren't any taxis on the rank at the minute; but he could have got one by walking a hundred yards along Trafalgar Square, and she must have known it as well as he did. All the same, she smiled sweetly at him and he at her and then, with a tremendous sweep of his hat, he makes a gallant speech to her. "I am under a thousand obligations," says he; "really, I couldn't intrude."
"Now for Munich," said I, as we rattled along down the steep street of the little town. "Now for Munich, with all the speed that first of postmasters and slowest of men, the Prince of Tour and Taxis, will afford us." The future engrossed all my thoughts; and puzzling as my late adventures had been to account for, I never for a moment reverted to the past.
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