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Updated: May 24, 2025
Honeysuckle had long been improved away from that station paling, against which he had stood twenty-nine years ago, watching the train carrying Anna Stormer away. In the hired fly Sylvia pressed close to him, and held his hand beneath the ancient dust-rug. Both felt the same excitement at seeing again this old home.
So she settled herself on the sloping high-cushioned seat, bracing her feet against the driving iron, while Mary, reaching up, tucked the dust-rug neatly about her skirts.
But I might as well have sought to mimic an albatross or a balloon. It was not only his splendid rotundity which I lacked. The difference went far beyond that. He had oiled castors running on patent ball bearings, and I was but the ordinary pedestrian youth. We found Mrs. Perkins reclining on a couch on the front verandah, a very gaily coloured dust-rug covering the lower part of her figure.
"There's the old place," he said. "My word, I am glad to be home!" Under the dust-rug Norah slipped her hand on to his knee. "It's just lovely to have you both of you." she added. "You're glad, too, aren't you, Wally?" "I could sing!" said Wally. "Once," said Jim, "you could. But for some years " "Beast!" said Wally. "If you weren't driving " "And you weren't nervous !" grinned his chum.
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