I glanced at her peruke, and for a moment laboured under the idea that she intended to call at her hairdresser's; but I soon recollected.
"I suppose we had better take the
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omnibus," she remarked, "and we can get out at the foot of the 'ill."
I assented, and in a few minutes we were in the street, in the line of the omnibus, and one of those vehicles soon appearing—
"Will you 'ail it?" inquired she.
So I hailed it at once, and we got in. Now Mrs. H. was so fond of talking that the presence of strangers never restrained her—a fact which I have often had occasion to regret. She was no sooner within the omnibus than she began remarking upon
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inconveaience of such vehicles, because of their smallness, and the
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