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She seemed to think it was all right to hop in and trust herself to him, although she'd never seen him before." "The antique Panhard fits in all right," said O'Dowd, "but I'm hanged if the woman fits at all. No such person arrived at Green Fancy last night." "Did you get a square look at the driver's face?" demanded De Soto.

He was then director of the Panhard factories, and his two sons were students at Stanislas. Jean, the elder, was Guynemer's classmate. He was a silent, self-centered, thoughtful student, calm in speech and facial expression, never speaking one word louder than another, and the farthest possible removed from anything noisy or agitated.

The steamer sails at four, and an hour will not give me any too much time. Have William come for Celeste and the steamer things at two. The Panhard will be best, as there is plenty of room in the tonneau." Then she ran lightly up the steps and into the house. The first impression of a visitor upon entering the hall might have been of emptiness.

Let me tell Sir Ralph Moray that it is impossible for you to tour with him under such conditions, which are surely not what you had a right to expect. If you will go with me, that" pointing a derisive finger at the Panhard "can follow with the luggage." Mrs.

What will they say when my world-worn old veteran bursts, or rather bumbles, into view?" I felt slightly crestfallen, for the first time. When one is an editor, one doesn't like to think one has been caught napping. "You said you ought to get two hundred pounds for your Panhard, if you sold it," I reminded him. "That's a good deal of money.

"Those men! Who are they? What does it mean?" It was Cranbourne who had the honesty to reply. "Danger!" Flora's handling of the old Panhard was beyond praise. Accurate, well judged and with just enough dash of risk at cross roads or in traffic to steal an extra mile or two on the average speed per hour.

Yoked, figuratively speaking only, for it trailed ignominiously behind at a distance of fifteen yards, and when our little Panhard began bumbling up the hill with its great follower, it resembled nothing so much as a very small comet with a disproportionately big tail.

Other instances of successful vertical design-the types already detailed are fully sufficient to give particulars of the type generally are the Panhard, Chenu, Maybach, N.A.G., Argus, Mulag, and the well-known Austro-Daimler, which by 1917 was being copied in every combatant country.

Barraclough possessed both and invariably despatched the governess cart to meet her favourite guests, on the theory that a horse is more of a compliment than a "snuffly engine." As a matter of fact the car was a very sterling, if rather old, Panhard Levassor and in no sense could be accused of snuffling.

He knew all that was to be known about the different kinds of cars; and he would roll their names on his tongue Panhard and Fiat and Daimler and Mercédès and Rolls-Royce, as if the sound of them caressed him like music.