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Indeed, in these days of turbines " Robin put down his cup rather emphatically, and said "Mphm." "Then you would organise a service of fast turbine steamers running all over the canal systems of the country?" "Exactly. Or let us say er launches," said Dubberley. "I must not overstate my case." "Travelling twenty miles an hour?" "Say fifteen, sir," said Dubberley magnanimously.
If we go to the very root of the matter" Dubberley is one of those fortunate persons who never has to dig far in his researches "we find that our whole hope of regeneration lies in the single, simple, homely word Canals! Revive your canals, send your goods by canal, travel yourself by "
I can best describe him by saying that although I hold office under a Conservative Government, ten minutes' conversation with Dubberley leaves me a confirmed Radical, and anything like a protracted interview with him converts me into a Socialist for the next twenty-four hours. A week-end in his society, and I should probably buy a red shirt and send out for bombs.
"He is a thorough-going warrior. Fancy any man taking all that trouble to lay out old Dubberley!" "Poor Mr Dubberley!" said tender-hearted Kitty. "Do him good!" said Dilly, in whose recollection Dubberley's past enormities loomed large. "I shall be nice to the Secretary Bird now." Dolly said nothing, which was unusual. Perhaps the brown spot still rankled.
Dubberley fished a sheaf of documents out of his pocket he is the sort of man who habitually secrets statistics and blue-books about his person and after stertorously perusing them closed his eyes for a moment, as if to work out a sum upon an internal blackboard, and said "I see no reason why swift canal-boats should not be constructed to run fifteen, twenty, or even twenty-five miles per hour.
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