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Without a word, he held it for her. In equal silence, she slipped into it. He retrieved the cap from the pile of discarded garments still lying on the office floor, put it on, and indicated the waiting car. "Get in," he commanded. She obeyed and he followed her, taking his place at the wheel. "You're hurt," she almost whispered. "Shall I drive?" "No Burke!" The word was like a pistol shot.
As told in the first volume of this series, the horse had run away, being alarmed at the flashing of Tom's wheel, and Miss Mary Nestor, of Mansburg, was in grave danger. "So you've given up the bicycle for the motor-boat," went on the young lady. "Yes," replied Tom with a smile, shutting off the power, "and I haven't had a chance to save any girls since I've had it."
For there on the gravel drive, its high-powered engine snorting and puffing, a rigid, uniformed figure at the wheel, stood Aunt Josephine's bright yellow car! "It's Aunt Josephine!" cried Keineth. "Oh, dear, she'll spoil the fun!" Keineth wished the ground would open wide and swallow her up, so deep was her dismay. Never in her life had she so hated that yellow monster and Kingston's rigid back!
A cabman who sits on a box and whips his horse, or a chauffeur who turns a wheel, is that and nothing more; but a gondolier is a romantic figure, and a gondola is a romantic craft, and the poor fellow has had to do it all himself, and did you hear how he was panting? and do look at those dark eyes! And there you are!
Those men of letters whose inclinations or opportunities do not lead them to these out-of-door, and more or less ferocious, pleasures seek to forget themselves at the music-hall, the Aquarium, or the numerous Earl's Court exhibitions. They become amateurs of foreign dancing, connoisseurs of the trapeze, or they leave their great minds at home and go up the Great Wheel.
Fifteen minutes after Johnny's arrival the plane was quivering outside on the flying field, and Bland was pulling down his goggles while Johnny kicked a small rock away from a wheel and climbed up to straddle into the rear seat, carrying his rifle with him to the manifest discomfort of Bland, who was "gun-shy."
Ha! ha! ha! quizzed him indeed, with all his cleverness; that was famously done. Wheel. Ha! ha! ha! With all his cleverness he will be all the evening hunting for the farmhouse and the mother that has broke her leg; so he is out of our way. Burs. But what need have you to want him out of your way, now Lord John has come over to your side? You have the thing at a dead beat. Wheel.
He was condemned to be broken alive on the wheel, and then strangled; whereas by special favour the sentence was commuted into strangulation first and the breaking of his bones afterwards. Strange are the vicissitudes of human affairs!
I think Mr Seagrave had better use the axe with me; and you and Juno can, when I have shown you how, hang the timber to the axle, and wheel it out to the place where we have decided upon building the house. And now we had better go to bed."
She played with the little wheel of the wick; she looked down, and then, with a glance flashed at him, she gasped: "I shall have to take your lamp for the table tea is ready." "Oh, well, if you will only take me with it. I'm frightfully hungry." Apparently she could not say anything to that. He tried to get the lamp to carry it out for her, but she would not let him.
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