So drive very slowly, at a walk, that I may see and admire everything--so slowly that if I liked anything especially, and wanted to get out, I could do so without stopping the vehicle." "Then your lordship does not want to drive by the trip, but by the hour ?" "Yes, my friend, by the hour, and here are four florins in prepayment for two hours.

You'll have no occasion to trouble yourself now, but drive as slowly as possible and your horses will be able to rest.

So go on through the busiest streets, and at a walk." "Well, that will suit my poor beasts," said the driver, laughing, "they have already been standing for six hours, and stiff enough from it." He touched his horses' backs with the are whip, and the animals started.
The carriage now rolled on slowly, like a hearse, at the pace drivers usually take when they wish to notify pedestrians that they have no occupant in their vehicles and can receive a passenger.

So no one noticed the slow progress of the carriage; no one in the crowded streets through which it passed heeded it.

Yet many a person might have been interested if he could have cast a glance within.
Something strange and unusual was certainly occurring inside the hack.