As she spoke, she lifted the flap of one of the little windows in the back of the cab and peered out.

" The cab swung round into Great Russell Street, and, glancing out as it turned, I saw another hansom following; but before I had time to inspect its solitary passenger, we drew up at the Museum gates.

I looked at my companion as the lights of the street shone into the cab, and was astonished at the transformation.

I saw her again as I had seen her in the cab with her sweet, pensive face and downcast eyes; I felt again the touch of her soft cheek and the parting kiss by the gate, so frank and simple, so intimate and final.

"It must cost him at least half a sovereign every time I leave the cab," Sarah sighed.

Once or twice I've refused to be engaged by the day, but he sends his man around to the garage and I find him sitting in the cab when I arrive.

"The worst of it is, I don't think the cab would support two.

The realization of this naturally affected her, raising phantoms of her mother, and of the face of the cab-driver as he remarked on the drawn blinds at the Cedars.

Closing of accounts, dismissals, inventories, bills, receipts, packing, decision concerning trains, reception of the former proprietor (especially that!), good-byes, superintending the stowage of luggage on the cab...!

On coming out of the cathedral, Léon proposed that they take a cab.

"'Go and get me a cab!' "The child bounded off like a ball by the Rue Quartre-Vents; then they were alone a few minutes, face to face, and a little embarrassed.

Through a scruple which honors him, the editor of the Revue de Paris has suppressed the passage of the fall in the cab.

When it came time to print the copy of December 1st, 1856, one of the directors of the Revue became affrighted at the scene in the cab.

"And on the harbour in the midst of the drays and casks and in the streets at the corners, the good folk opened large wonder-stricken eyes at this sight, so extraordinary in the provinces, a cab with blinds drawn, and which appeared thus constantly shut more closely than a tomb, and tossing about like a vessel.

My client's first thought, which unfortunately met with resistance, was this: "There is only one thing to do: print the book immediately, not with parts cut out, but the work entire as it left my hands, restoring to it the scene in the cab."

I will say no more of the adventure in the cab.

The stars tell him anything he wishes to believe, and he can conjure up spirits as easily as another man can order a cab.

I wrote a hasty letter to the owner, told him I admired his politics, but had never hoped to steal his umbrella; then hailed a cab, and took the umbrella and the note to the nearest dispatch office.

You have a remarkable example of this in the ceaseless cracking of his whip on the part of a cab-driver, while he is proceeding at a slow pace on the lookout for a fare.

She left in a cab to accept a home with a niece, leaving the captain confronted with a problem which he had seen growing for some time past.

"One is that some one croaked that bird Warren and shoved him into the cab while the woman was ridin' in it.

The other is that he slipped into the cab and she killed him.

"Because the otherthat idea of puttin' a dead body into a cab without the driver knowing itit just naturally ain't possible.

Minute examination of the interior of the cab had revealed nothingnot a fingerprint, nor a scrap of handkerchief.

She had meant to go out on foot with her maid, and then to take a cab in the street and drive to the villa.