Then you can take your sovereign and be off home as quick as you like.

Do you agree ?" He hesitated for a space in which a man could have counted twenty, and then set his glass upon the counter.
"I'll do it," he said.

"I'll drive yer there, not for the suvering, but for the good of the country yer speaks about.

Come on." I gave my own man his money, and then followed the other out to his cab.
He mounted to his box, not without some help, and we presently set off.
Whether it was the effect of the refreshment he had imbibed, or whether it was mere elation of spirits I cannot say, the fact, however, remains that for the whole of the journey, which occupied ten or twelve minutes he howled vociferously.

A more joyous cabman could scarcely have been discovered in all that part of London.