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Goldfish in bowl. Very pretty. But breakfast! One egg, one toast, no more! Ah, no! My cab-fare back, two shilling, 'arf crown. For me no more!" A.G. Plowden, the London police magistrate, attended a private view at Grosvenor Gallery. The first person he met was Whistler.
"So'd you say if they tucked a napkin under your chin at meals, and cut your meat up into dice for you, and you'd ever tried to fold up your newspaper with one hand, or had to stop a perfect stranger in the street, as I did just now outside your door, and ask him to fish a cab-fare out of your right-hand trouser-pocket if he'd be so good? because your idiot of a man ought to have put your money in the other one."
"Friend o' yours, then, is he?" queried the weakening driver. "A friend o' mine!" cried the other angrily, for his man was already safely in the cab. "You damned can-slinger, d'you suppose I'm wastin' cab-fare doin' church rescue work? Of course he's a friend o' mine.
In exasperation he interrupted almost rudely. "It's only this: I I'm strapped." "Strapped?" She knitted her brows over this fresh specimen of American slang. "Flat strapped busted broke on my uppers down and out," he reeled off synonyms without a smile. "I haven't enough money to pay cab-fare across the town " "Oh!" she interpolated, enlightened. " to say nothing of taking us to Chiltern.
"That may be," replied Paul, "but observe the wild glitter in his eye! I don't know which end to believe." Comyns Carr met a foreign painter who had been known to breakfast with Whistler at Chelsea and asked him if he had seen him lately. "Ah no, not now so much," was the reply. "He ask me a little while ago to breakfast, and I go. My cab-fare two shilling, 'arf crown. I arrive. Very nice.
"Good gracious, Trix, you don't mean to take home potatoes in the cab!" gasped Ruth, fresh from the delightful luxury of the Court, where no one thought what anything cost, and every luxury of the season appeared of its own accord upon the table; but Trix smiled at her benignly, and replied "Certainly; two pecks! And any other vegetables I can pick up cheap. It will help to pay for the cab-fare.
Now see that perfect comedian, Arthur Roberts, superior to Irving because he is working with living material; how trim and saucy he is! and how he evokes the soul, the brandy-and-soda soul, of the young men, delightful and elegant in black and white, who are so vociferously cheering him, "Will you stand me a cab-fare, ducky, I am feeling so awfully queer?"
You will hear me take him through them when we get down there, so it's no use going over the same ground twice." "Funny orders for a couple of Scotland Yard detectives!" was my puzzled comment as Raffles produced an inordinate cab-fare. "Scotland Yard?" said he.
So on the Sunday I was going to have it out with her people with the Count and Stefano as soon as they showed their noses. I had no inducement, remember, ever to return to surreptitious life within a cab-fare of Wormwood Scrubbs. Faustina and the Bay of Naples were quite good enough for me. And the prehistoric man in me rather exulted in the idea of fighting for my desire.
But here at last she was, with eyes even by gaslight full of loving recognition, a hand full of her cab-fare, a heart full of throbbing hope and fear, a voice full of anxiety, as she inquired of the astonished servant, 'Louisa, Louisa, how is Aunt Ursel! and, without awaiting the reply, she opened the adjoining door.
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