The process is simple; it consists in setting ourselves up at auction on the curbstone, among the numerous cabbieswaiting for a job, and knocking ourselves down to the lowest bidder.
I had been told that every one in Moscow knew him and his costume; but diligent inquiry of my cabbies always elicited a negative.
I could not believe my ears, but not one of the numerous cabbies standing in front of the hotel opened his lips to offer his services.
He came and went, as of old, between Garlant's Hotel and Buckingham Street, until he declared that thecabbies in the Strand knew him as well as the cabbies in Chelsea.
Two more cabbies drive up opposite, to the house of Sophia Vasilievna.
Old cabbies hear very many things, because to the cabby, sitting in front, everything is readily audible, which is not at all suspected by the conversing fares; and many things do the old cabbies know of that which takes place among people.
He has led me a pretty dance up and down London to-night, and two cabbieshave made quite a stroke of business out of us.
The cabbies looked at one another and shook their heads; it chanced that none of them had been on that particular rank at that time.
Cabbies yelled for fares, and everyone seemed bent on making as much noise and causing as much inconvenience as possible.
The streets were alive with the revellers who had been turned out by the closing of the cafés, dancehalls, and theatres, and the cries of cabbies rose above the din of laughter and chatter among the crowds.
These cabbies have more nearly the air of our own noble hackmen than any we have seen in England.
Americans are no novelty to them, for ship-loads of American tourists are put off here at frequent intervals, and the cabbies have a thin imitation of the voting hackman's independence.
The cabbies left her therefore, unchallenged, to a lad as shy and awkward as herself, who mumbled something about quiet, reasonable rooms, and received her yielded bag with a surprise as great as her own.
So that when she arrived at the Lakewood Station and fell among the cabbies and hotel touts she was the perfect type of the no-longer-young spinster, unaccompanied, awkward and light of luggage, presumably light of purse.
Cabbies went out and Cabbies came in; joint after joint was devoured, and the naked bones lay on the steaming pewter desert like those of the vulture-torn camel in far Araby.
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