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The car was of a new pattern, low and long, with an ample seat in the tonneau, facing forward; and a professional driver sat at the wheel, a strange figure in leather, goggled out of all personality and seemingly part of the mechanism.
With eyes that goggled tremendously Bill stared at it; with a finger that shook he pointed at it; turned his head to George. "George," he asked, "whose cat is that?" George looked at Mary; gave a bitter little laugh. "I suppose it's ours," he replied. "Eh, Mary?" A sad little smile his Mary gave, "I suppose it is," she agreed. From one to the other Bill looked, suspicion in those goggling eyes.
The lame motor-car arrived, and stopped in consternation. A tall, goggled, grey-haired man who was driving inquired with an Oxford intonation and a clear, careful enunciation, "Can WE help at all?" It became manifest that the rug, the table-cloth, the cushions, the jacket, were getting smeared with petrol and burning.
He wasn't constitutionally, it may at once be explained for him, a goggled person; and he was condemned, in New York, to this frequent violence of transition having to reckon with it whenever he went out, as who should say, from himself.
No conduct could be more likely than that of the office boy to irritate the first client, arriving on business of which it were hard to exaggerate the delicate and anxious nature. These reflections flitted through Merton's mind as he exclaimed 'Come in, with a tone of admonishing austerity. The office boy entered. His face was scarlet, his eyes goggled and ran water.
We began to be awed by our own dignity. We explained to him that the Shadow had changed his mind and had sent Bogami instead. Bogami brought our knapsacks to our room, where he was immobilized by the sight of himself in the looking-glass of the wardrobe; probably he had never seen such a thing before, and he goggled at it. He at last backed slowly from the room.
Tourists seldom disturbed its tranquillity, the 'Mother Huff' public-house affording but sorry entertainment to such parties; the motor-bicycle, with its detestable noise, insufferable odour and dirty, oil-stained rider in goggled spectacles, was scarcely ever seen, and motor-cars always turned another way on leaving the county town of Riversford, in order to avoid the sharp ascent from the town, as well as the still sharper and highly dangerous descent into the valley again, where the little mediaeval village lay nestled.
It contained three persons a capped and goggled chauffeur on the front seat, and a young fellow and a girl in the tonneau. They attracted my attention in just that order first the chauffeur, then the young fellow, and, last of all, the girl. It was the chauffeur who hailed me.
"All the time almost," he said, "I was watching him thinking what an ass he was to be trusted with men's lives. . . . I might have done better to have thought that of myself. I was doing nothing to prevent it all! The damned little imbecile was up to his neck in the drama of the thing, he liked to trumpet it out, he goggled round at us. 'Then it is war! he said. Richover shrugged his shoulders.
Like the fool bicycle scorcher who tears past beautiful bits of landscape, his eyes fixed on the dusty path spurned by his whirring wheel, or like the goggled maniac who steers an automobile, I now find that I have played hundreds of times over this course without once having seen it.
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