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Further, it was his intention to have a talk with Terry Temple just as soon as might be. That day Terry's automobile with shrieking horn swept on by him. He caught a glimpse of two veils, a brown and a black; the car's top was up. Terry appeared not to see him. "She hasn't lost a speck of her impudence!" He frowned after her departing car, praying in his heart for a puncture or a stalled engine.
Wennys to Clovelly and the green car's nose had been set in quite a different direction. "She's fixed up to go out with me this afternoon," he said slowly. "Tch!" Kitty clicked her tongue sharply against her teeth and, crossing to the chimneypiece, took down a letter which, was resting there. "I'd forgotten this! She left it to be given to you when you called for her this afternoon.
I crept miserably into the stuffy glass cage, where, in the folding chair, I sat as far forward as my own shape and the car's allowed; Sir Samuel's fat knees in my back, Lady Turnour's sharp voice in my ears. And for scenery, I had Bertie's aggressive shoulders and supercilious gesticulations. The road to Nevers I scarcely saw.
The brigades moved that night; headquarters remained at Gueschart until dawn, when the general started off in his car with two of us attendant. Now before the war a motor-cyclist would consider himself ill-used if he were forced to take a car's dust for a mile or so.
The car's heeled up a bit, but I'll lift you out if you can get to the door." She stumbled forward obediently, groping her way towards the vague panel of lighter grey revealed by the open door. Once more, out of the swathing fog, hands touched her. "There you are! That's right. Now lean forward."
A minute later he had all the unoccupied guests around him on the lawn, and one of the Green Imp's lamps was turned upon its crippled shape. "By George, he's had a bad accident," one and another of them said as they examined the car's injuries. The hood was jammed until they wondered why the engine was not disabled; the left running-board was nearly torn off and the fender a shapeless wreck.
The mist thickened; black wet tree trunks loomed before him like ghosts and sank out of view again; the road wound along the stream among rocks and bushes and over hillocks with all the difficult sinuosity of a serpent's track; in his ears persisted the chuckling talk of the creek, flowing in darkness except when lighted by his car's lamps as the machine plunged through a ford, as became more and more frequent with the ascent and the narrowing of the canyon.
An icy wind rushed down from the tops of the great white towers, as if with the swooping wings of a giant bird, and it took our car's breath away. Instead of humming it began to pant, and I noticed the difference at once. If I'd been Maida, I should probably have been too polite to put questions about the thing's behaviour, for fear Mr.
This moment should have been a summit, yet when Prince ran down the hill, breathless, exultant, and nearly exhausted, Connie, her face showing peaked and white in the yellow glare, cried, "Hello, Prince, I knew you'd make it." She held out a half-frozen hand and he took it in his. "Car's busted," she said laconically. "Won't budge. I drained the water out of the radiator."
Scattered through the vivid stretch of landscape ivy-covered houses stood squarely in their park-lands. Set down in the level distance, like children's toys, cattle browsed. The quiet greenness had become starred as far as eye could carry with a gentle rain of myriad tinted petals. "The car's got a sense of beauty," he laughed; "it chooses carefully when it wants to break down."
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