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Presently he folded a cigarette, and went on: "I had saved something to the last, as the great test, as the one thing to open his eyes wide, if they could be opened at all. Alors, there was no time to lose, for the wolf of Night was driving the red glow-worm down behind the world, and I knew that when darkness came altogether darkness and night there would be no help for him.
After leaving Mrs Willis I was detained so long with some of my patients that it was late before I could turn my steps westward. The night was very cold, with a keen December wind blowing, and heavy black clouds driving across the dark sky. It was after midnight as I drew near the neighbourhood of the house in which I had left Dumps so hurriedly that morning.
"Nor I," replied his companion, driving the canoe swiftly with his single paddle till the other had freed himself of his garment and was braced, steadily, once more; when he, too, laid his paddle across the gunwales and stripped for the work. "I don't just like the looks of those clouds.
Crashing through the jungle the huge beasts turned against those who had, been driving them on toward the stockade. With wild shouts and yells, the hunters and their native helpers tried to turn back the elephant tide, but it was useless.
Boswell asked him whether he would not add a post-chaise journey to the other sole cause of happiness namely, drunkenness. "No, sir," said Johnson, "you are driving rapidly from something or to something."
The jeweler gave them four small compasses. Even kind Doctor Maynard, whom they met driving his car out toward the country, when he learned what they were doing, promised them a dollar as his admission to the fair "whether I get a chance to come or not." "I'll bet we had better luck than the girls," boasted Palmer, as they started for their homes. "And we have more places to go to next week.
"Who is with you?" asked Raisky in a low voice. "Whose horses are these, and who is driving?" "Ivan Ivanovich." "I don't know him." "The Forester," whispered Vera, and he would have repeated her words if she had not nudged him to keep silence. "Later," she said. He remembered the talk with his aunt, her praises of the Forester, her hints of his being a good match.
Doubtless most of the youth's ancestors would likewise have held such labour unworthy of a gentleman, and would have preferred driving to their hills a herd of lowland cattle; but this, the last Macruadh, had now and then a peep into the kingdom of heaven.
The fact is that Belgians and French run the station together, and they are all agreed on one thing, which is, that no one but an authorised and registered person is to come within its doors. Heaven knows the trouble there has been with spies, and this rule is absolutely necessary. Two Red Cross khaki-clad men have been driving everywhere in Furnes, and have been found to be Germans.
I read one programme on the subject, by a fellow called Oates, and thought it the most absurd foolery I ever perused. But that cunning fellow Shaftesbury, and some others amongst the great ones, having taken it up, and are driving on at such a rate as makes harness crack, and horses smoke for it.
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