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I arranged on the seat the air-cushion which is indispensable to me on the evenings preceding great church festivals, the sittings at that season being always prolonged. I slipped the white surplice which was hanging from a peg over my cassock, and, after meditating for a moment, opened the little shutter that puts me in communication with the penitents.
A dizzying swoop downward, but not to death and destruction, for the aerostat alighted easily upon what appeared to be a sort of air-cushion, and, though unsteady for a brief space, then settled upon an even keel.
During our stop of two days, to make necessary repairs and recuperate our strength for the hardships of the desert, the usual calls were exchanged with the leading officials. In the matter of social politeness the Chinese, especially the “literati,” have reason to look down upon the barbarians of the West. Politeness has been likened generally to an air-cushion.
I stood in the bishop's state-room, Nayland Smith, his gaunt face wet with perspiration, beside me, handling certain odd looking objects which littered the place, and lay about amid the discarded garments of the absent cleric. "Pneumatic pads!" he snapped. "The man was a walking air-cushion!" He gingerly fingered two strange rubber appliances.
You had better ask him to dinner to-night; there's not an hour to be lost." "You forget that we are going to the theatre to-night," said Mrs. Bernard Temple. "Oh, what does that matter. Nora can't go, with her weak back." "Yes she can. I have taken a box, and she shall have my air-cushion to lean against." "And I want to go to a theatre awfully," said Nora.
He was duly at Transham station in time for the London train, and, after a minute consecrated to looking in the wrong direction, he saw his mother already on the platform with her bag, an air-cushion, and a beautifully neat roll. 'Travelling third! he thought. 'Why will she do these things? Slightly flushed, she kissed Felix with an air of abstraction. "How good of you to meet me, darling!"
"Everything in it that I want to-night, my dressing-box and my wrappers and my air-cushion; they'll be sure not to have any bolsters on the beds, and only one feather in each corner of the pillows!" But this was only the first surprise of annoyance. She recollected herself on the instant, and leaned back again, saying nothing more.
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