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"How are you living?" she asked Grandma Clay as she complacently shook hands. "Nice cool weather now and not so many beastly mosquitoes." "By Jove! Did you know about the 'skeeters' here?" inquired Andrew of me. "They're big enough to ride bikes and weigh a pound. You wait till you hear 'em singing Sankey's hymns to-night."
I've seen him come in with a team of five all buckin', an' it snowin' an' never anythink but a laugh out of him. He'd ride miles an' miles to see me. The crawlers about these parts nowadays toddle about on bikes or sit like great-grandfathers in sulkies, an' if it was to sprinkle they'd think half a mile too far to go to see their sweetheart. I think the heart of the world must be dyin' out."
I thought my hair would have turned white. 'I shouldn't think the Mutual poaches, said Vaughan. 'He hasn't got the enterprise to poach an egg even. No, it can't be that. 'Perhaps he bikes? said the Babe. 'No, he's not got a bike. He's the sort of chap, though, to borrow somebody else's without asking. Possibly he does bike.
I should have received some sort of intimation if it had been." "Yes, sir." "Do you mean to say that you have seen nobody, Brown?" "Only about a dozen fellows, sir. The usual lot who come on bikes, sir." "None of the boarders?" "No, sir. Not a single one." "This is extraordinary." Mr. Spence pondered. "Well," he said, "you two fellows had better go along up to Hall.
Motor bikes make a fellow a bit of a vagabond eh, what? They will go the pace. You can't stop 'em. Fifty per, and be hanged to the police, that's their motto."
Tams, quite forgetful of etiquette, followed Rachel, unasked, into the parlour. "What?" said Louis loudly. "Two of you! Isn't one enough?" Mrs. Tams vanished. "Heath took charge of the bikes," Louis murmured, as if to the ceiling. Over half an hour elapsed before the gate creaked. "There he is!" Rachel exclaimed happily.
A bicycle race in them days meant somethin', let me tell you, and people for fifty miles around would organize parties to go see it. "Well, I had the fever just like everybody else, and after a while, when I'd saved up enough, me and a friend bought a tandem machine. It cost a pretty penny all right, but it was a well-built machine, and had better stuff in it than most bikes you see nowadays.
Clearly it were useless to denounce a "craze," sheer folly to argue against a "fad." We had better save our breath to cool our broth. The ministers cannot be depended on to lend their moral support to this new movement against the Magdalen maker they have bought bikes and are chasing the girl in bloomers.
And a young lady wanting to be married!" Michael turned apologetically to Sir James. "Women does be terrible set on weddings," he said, "and that's a fact." "That'll do now, Michael," said Molly; "stop talking and put the two bikes on the tender, and poke up your old fires or what ever it is you do to make your engine go."
Do you think I brought you down here to be moral instructor to young Bourne, you grey old badger? Couldn't you bag an innocent of sixteen or so? Besides, what the deuce do you mean by tipping me the wink as Bourne and I used to get on our 'bikes'? You always did it, and I thought you were winding up the youngster hand over hand."
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