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On the Tuesday we went down to look at the Roman place where the Antiquities were going to dig. We sat on the Roman wall and ate nuts. And as we sat there, we saw coming through the beet-field two labourers with picks and shovels, and a very young man with thin legs and a bicycle. It turned out afterwards to be a free-wheel, the first we had ever seen.
All gypsies an' tramps will be stopped and interrogated. I don't think there's no cause for you to feel anxious, ma'am. I 'ope to 'ave some news for you in the course of the afternoon." They watched him free-wheel down the lane and shoot round the corner. "Oh, dear," said Mother, then: "Why doesn't the baby come? I wish Daddy weren't away."
The Green, as he passed along it on the free-wheel run, merged away through gloom into obscurity. Points of light from the houses showed here and there. The windows of his home had lamplight through their lattices. The drive was soft with leaves beneath his feet. Lamplight, and the yielding undertread and all around walled about with obscurity. It was new.
His favourite stylographic pen, his favourite note-book, and that was an end of it so far as work was concerned. He took his half-plate camera with him, however; and the two handsome free-wheel bicycles were carefully swathed for the journey.
Anthea detached a pin from her waistband, a pin whose withdrawal left a gaping chasm between skirt and bodice, and handed it furtively to Robert with a grimace of the darkest and deepest meaning. Robert slipped away to the road. There, sure enough, stood a bicycle a beautiful new free-wheel. Of course Robert understood at once that if the Lamb was grown up he MUST have a bicycle.
"Yes, sir; and two more with wheels buckled, and three that free-wheel both ways." "What d'you mean free-wheel both ways?" "The pedals rotate, sir, with great speed, but the bicycle remains motionless." When a man habitually calls an armchair, A chair, arm Officers, for the use of, one his conversation is apt to become stilted.
Fortune he rather thought of taking the afternoon off if he was not wanted. He mounted his bicycle and rode purposefully back to Mabel. The free-wheel run down into Perry Green landed him a little short of his gate, not bad!
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