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She looked down at him as he stood with one hand resting on the splashboard, and he, looking up to her, smiled in return. "Christian," she said, "do you know I should scarcely have recognised you. You are so big, and and you look positively ghastly!" She finished her remark with a little laugh which took away from the spoken meaning of it. "Ghastly?" he replied.
The car was open, with side entrance, a dark green body with coronet and cipher on the panels, upholstered in red, with glass removable screen to the splashboard a splendid, workmanlike car just suitable for long tours and fast runs. Of all the cars and of all the makes, that was the only one which it was my ambition to drive.
Overhead, the first-floor windows had been flung wide; the rooms within were aflame with light; and, as I grasped the rail of the splashboard, and, straightening myself up, gazed over the cab-roof with a wild surmise into the driver's face, a powerful but invisible string band struck up the 'Country Girl' Lancers! "'Oo's a liar now?"
Then we drive homewards, the buck on the splashboard, and pass a splendid group of peacocks and peahens under two small trees, nearly a dozen of them within seventy yards, and I handle my big rifle, then my Browning Colt, and nearly fire, for I'd fain add a peacock to my pistol-bag, but they look so tremendously domestic that I haven't the heart, and besides, they are sacred I am told, and possibly it would be unlucky to shoot them.
How this death would affect Fleur had begun to trouble Soames. He was not certain that she knew of it she seldom looked at the paper, never at the births, marriages, and deaths. He pressed matters on, and made his way to Green Street for lunch. Winifred was almost doleful. Jack Cardigan had broken a splashboard, so far as one could make out, and would not be "fit" for some time.
Perhaps she would be mortally wounded by the time she got through the lines, so as to hang in bleeding festoons over the splashboard, and sink into the arms of the husband loved better than aught save Glory, gasping, as her heroic spirit fled "Did the gracious lady say she would have her boots on?"
Of course, the reins were carried through rings low down on the kicking-strap, ingeniously placed so that each whisk of the horse's tail caught one or other rein; and then the process of extraction was a somewhat dangerous one, for there was no splashboard, and the driver had to stow his legs away out of reach, before commencing operations.
Vansuythen was driving home Mrs. Boulte, white and wan, with a cut on her forehead. 'Stop, please, said Mrs. Boulte, 'I want to speak to Ted. Mrs. Vansuythen obeyed, but as Mrs. Boulte leaned forward, putting her hand upon the splashboard of the dog-cart, Kurrell spoke. 'I've seen your husband, Mrs. Boulte. There was no necessity for any further explanation.
How this death would affect Fleur had begun to trouble Soames. He was not certain that she knew of it she seldom looked at the paper, never at the births, marriages, and deaths. He pressed matters on, and made his way to Green Street for lunch. Winifred was almost doleful. Jack Cardigan had broken a splashboard, so far as one could make out, and would not be "fit" for some time.
First, there was an old lumbering family volante, a sort of gig, with four posts or uprights supporting a canopy covered with leather, and with a high dash iron or splashboard in front. There were curtains depending from this canopy, which on occasion could be let down, so as to cover in the sides and front.
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