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He rushed blindly across the lawn again, through the little side gate he had never passed before and down the street home. Uncle Walter was just opening the door of his car. "Uncle Walter come come," sobbed Jims, clutching frantically at his hand. "Miss Avery's dead dead oh, come quick." "Who is dead?" "Miss Avery Miss Avery Garland. She's lying on the grass over there in her garden.
Cynthia's expression was hard to read; she seemed to be rushing on with the car, watching the face beside Buntingford, the young hands on the wheel, the keen eyes looking ahead, the play of talk between them. "What a splendid creature!" said Lady Maud half-unwillingly, as she and Cynthia walked back to the lawn. "I'm afraid I don't at all approve of her in ordinary life.
But that is a dangerous subject. One more experience of this wonderful day the most crowded with impressions of my whole life. At night we take a car and drive north, and ever north, until at a late hour we halt and climb a hill in the darkness. Below is a wonderful sight. Down on the flats, in a huge semi-circle, lights are rising and falling.
Push on, George. So till flames actually appear. The reason for this reluctance to dismount is that the nights are howlingly cold, black, and windswept, and a car is a haven of refuge. From village to village the miners travel, for a change of cinema, of girl, of pub. The trams are desperately packed.
The car which Dominey had ordered from the garage was already standing at the door. It was curious how both of them seemed disinclined to refer again even indirectly to the subject which they had been discussing. "Very good of you to send me back," the doctor said gruffly. "I started out all right, but it was a drear walk across the marshes."
Money had not spoiled Richard; he still held wealth in respect, while Ward ordered his racing car, and Nina yawned over twelve-dollar school shoes. No; she would not enjoy telling Richard that she was to marry his son.
When a cross servant girl, with a bandaged eye, opened the door to him, those sounds seemed to escape from the room and to strike his car. It was a rhapsody of Liszt's, that everybody was tired of, splendidly played but only to one point. When that point was reached the same thing was repeated. Nekhludoff asked the bandaged maid whether the inspector was in. She answered that he was not in.
Just before they reached the other end there was a cry of alarm from a stout German woman who sat on the other side of the car. "I've been robbed!" she exclaimed. "My purse is gone!" Of course this attracted general attention. "Was there much in the purse, madam?" asked a kind-looking, elderly man. "Yes, there was six dollars it was a great deal to me."
I didn't notice as ye came down for supper dinner, as ye call it. 'It was like this, uncle, she said. 'Poor Harry was very angry with himself about that petrol. Of course, he wanted the car to go well while you were in it; and he came up-stairs and grumbled at me for leaving him all alone and driving home with you. 'Oh, did he? exclaimed Dan. 'Yes.
And from all sides in cars resplendent as the sun, hosts of Gandharvas and Apsaras began to follow that represser of foes, the lord of the celestials. And ascending a car yoked with steeds, decorated with burnished gold, and roaring like clouds, that king of the celestials, Purandara blazing in beauty came unto the Parthas.
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