They ain't agoin' to be _seen_ drivin' up the Quad in a Noah's Ark like that.

Come along, young gents; leave him for the milksops.

The like of you rides in a hansom, I know." Of course, this artful student of juvenile nature carried the day, and there was great cheering and crowing and chaffing, when the hansom, with the two trunks on the top, and the two anxious faces inside, peering over the top of their hat-boxes and bags rattled triumphantly out of the station.
As Templeton school was barely three minutes' drive from the station, there was very little leisure either for conversation or the recovery of their composure, before the gallant steed was clattering over the cobbles of the great Quadrangle.
They pulled up at a door which appeared to belong to a bell of imposing magnitude, which the cabman, alighting, proceeded to pull with an energy that awoke the echoes of that solemn square, and made our two heroes draw their breath short and sharp.
"Hop out, young gentlemen," said the cabman, helping his passengers and their luggage out.

"It's a busy time, and I'm in a hurry.

A shilling each, and sixpence a piece for the traps; that's two and three makes five, and leave the driver to you." Considering the distance they had come, it seemed rather a long price, and Heathcote ventured very mildly to ask-- "The other man at the station said two shillings." "Bah!" said the cabman in tones of unfeigned disgust, "you are green ones after all! He'd have charged a bob a piece for the traps, and landed you up to eight bob, and stood no nonsense too about it.