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If father had been `called away, or had `had to go away, or was `kept somewhere, the details were out of deference allowed to remain in mystery, respected by curiosity ... `Father-business. ... All business was sacred. He himself had inculcated this attitude. In a short silence the sound of the bell that the carman rang before the tram started for Hanbridge floated in through the open window.
We rattled up to the Kenmare Arms; and so ended, not without a sigh on my part, one of the merriest six-hour rides that five yachtsmen, one cockney, five women and a child, the carman, and a countryman with an alpeen, ever took in their lives.
I have also consulted Place's collections in Additional MSS., 27,823. Bain's James Mill, p. 162. H. H. Wilson in his preface to the edition of 1840. Wallas's Francis Place, p. 78. Bain's James Mill, p. 435. Ibid. p. 433. Bentham's Works, p. 498. See Carman in Economic Review, 1894. See under Black in Dictionary of National Biography. Autobiography, p. 101.
"I have a foreman already," said Bartley, turning his back on him peevishly, for the first time, and pacing the room, absorbed in his own disappointment. Hope was in despair, and put on his hat to go. But he turned at the window and said: "You have vans and carts. I understand horses thoroughly. I am a veterinary surgeon, and I can drive four-in-hand. I offer myself as carman, or even hostler."
She could remember their names well; but by some chance all those years of utter change had effaced that of the carman who slung the sacks on the fall-rope, which by some mysterious agency bore them up to a landing they vanished from into a doorway half-way to Heaven. What on earth was that man's name?
I was invited to spend the following Saturday and Sunday with a gentleman and his family. I was punctual to my appointment, and was driven by my carman up to the door of a new house in a very pretty situation. I was shown into the drawing-room, where I waited some time for the mistress of the house to make her appearance. She was a matronly person, with a bland smile on her countenance.
"The Hindoo was now nearly hysterical, and the kiddies were picking up his language fast. 'Now then, old Jabberjee, said one nipper in spectacles. The crowd was laughing, and surging towards the police. I managed to edge out of it. "'What's the trouble? I asked a carman. "'You see that P. and O. Johnny? he said.
Carman was hardly the man to do wrong. A few days after James had examined the bill, a clerk from the house which had sent it, called for settlement. The lad, who was present, waited with interest to see whether Mr. Carman would speak of the error. But he made no remark. A check for the amount of the bill as rendered, was filled up, and a receipt taken. "Is that right?"
Delancy, drawing a deep breath. Rose stepped to one of the library windows, and throwing it up, looked out upon the portico. "There is no one," she remarked, coming back into the room. "Could I have been so mistaken?" Mr. Delancy looked bewildered. Seeing that the impression was so strong on his mind, Miss Carman went out into the hall, and glanced from there into the parlor and dining-room.
It carried him down with the speed of a mill-race, Lincoln raised his voice above the roar of the flood, and yelled to Carman to swim for an elm-tree which stood almost in the channel, which the action of the high water changed.
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