“Oh! but their removing from the chaise into a hackney coach is such a presumption! And, besides, no traces of them were to be found on the Barnet road.”

She moved to Paris just in time to witness King Louis XVI “in a hackney coach going to meet his death,” she wrote.

Instead, there were thousands of hackney coaches pulled by horses.

The hackney coaches moreover only ply till five o'clock, so if you go to a party at night, it costs you a scudo.

When they were within a few yards of the door, a hackney coach passed them, and, turning, came to a stand before the house.