 ... for yourself !) will be heard from the first fashionable coachman who is impeded in his swift career, and he will be called to order promptly by the police. Ladies may not, unfortunately, drive in the smartest of the public carriages, but must content...  Russian Rambles - Page 46by Isabel Florence Hapgood - 1895 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1892 - 968 pages
...the smartest of the public carriages, but must content themselves with something more modest and more shabby. But Vanka is usually good-natured, patient,...Duke mistook us for acquaintances, and saluted. Our izvostchik returned the greeting. "Was that Vastly Dmitrich?" we asked, in Russian form. "Yes, madam."... | |
 | Richard Harding Davis, Andrew Lang, William Wetmore Story, Francisque Sarcey, Henry James, Paul Lindau, Isabel Florence Hapgood - Broadway (New York, N.Y.) - 1892 - 280 pages
...public carriages, but must content themselves with something more modest and more shabby. But Vauka is usually good-natured, patient, and quite unconscious...barracks; the Grand Duke mistook us for acquaintances, aud saluted. Our izvostchik returned the greeting. " Was that Vasily Dmitrich ? " we asked, in Russian... | |
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