He replied at once that there were twocruelty, and bilking; which, if the word is not academic, I may paraphrase as cheating the helpless, swindling a child out of its pennies, or leaving a house by the back door in order to avoid paying your cabman his lawful fare.

He obeyed, and as he sat down she told the cabman to take her to the Haymarket Theatre.

" "Upon which" "Mr. Fink-Nottle directed the cabman to drive him back to his uncle's residence.

I found out the cabman who had taken Rameau awayyou can always get readier help from cabbies if you go as one of themselves, especially if you are after a bilkerand from him got a sufficiently near East End direction to find Rameau after inquiries.

"Wot's up, guvner?" asked the cabman.

When they were at last in the street, they could find no carriage, and began to look for one, hailing the cabmen they saw passing at a distance.

I visited a few shops for some necessaries, and went on board the "Servia" during the afternoon, thinking that I might have difficulty in getting a cabman to drive to the docks after dark if the snow drifted deeply.

Omnibus-cads looked after him with undisguised admiration, and hansom cabmen, catching the enthusiasm of pace, found themselves actually wishing they were gentlemen's servants, to have their beer found, and sit behind such steppers as those!

As we had informed the cabman, previous to setting out, that there was no time to be lost, we covered the distance in fine style, and just as the sun was sinking behind the mountains entered the little village on the outskirts of which the villa was situated.

After a long altercation he left the irate cabman to be brought to reason by the porter, a one-armed giant of prodigious strength.

Patsy had located the cabman at his home on West Thirty-second street.

Tom Ryfe jumped into a cab, and was off on a multiplicity of errands, while Jim, pondering deeply with his head down, and his hands thrust into his coat-pockets, slunk towards Holborn, revolving in his mind the least he could offer some dissipated cabman, whose licence was in danger at any rate, for the hire of horse and vehicle during the ensuing night.

In one of his lucid intervals I inquired whether he felt equal to telling me in what direction the gentleman who had given him the shilling had ordered the cabman to drive him.

" "What happened then?" "Mr. Fink-Nottle appears to have realized at this point that his position as regards the cabman had become equivocal.

Then when it became necessary to get Corbut out of the way, he remembered the drunken cabman, and hired him.

They stopped for a second here, sir, and I heard the gentleman send a cabman for a clergyman, post haste, to meet them at the Cat and Fiddle.

I stopped the cabman just as he was about to enter an iron gateway whose posts bore two great lamps.

He 'ad on a top 'at and a tail-coat, black kid gloves and a little black bow, and he didn't answer the cabman back a single word.

He waved his cabman out of existence, so to speak, and stood on the pavement with his arms folded upon his breast awaiting the arrival of the Bacteriologist.

He had a note-book in his handthat terrible weapon which awes even the London cabman.

But who would have thought that Dr. Patton, who thus denounced the cabmen and 'busmen of New York, had at the very time the "Negro Pew" in his own church!

Shortly after this, the road began winding upwards, past the porcelain factories and through the village of Sèvres; after which, having but a short distance of very steep road to climb, we desired the cabman to wait, and went up on foot.

To drink down a London cabman, on anything like fair terms, is an arduous task, even for a housebreaker, and Jim's passions were roused to their worst by alcohol long before he arrived with his four-wheeled cab at the appointed spot where he was to wait for Tom Ryfe.

They shook hands, and Captain Bowers, reaching up for a cage containing a parrot, which had been noisily entreating the cabman for a kiss all the way from the station, handed that flustered person his fare and entered the house again.