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He is watching me talk to you, and perhaps he will ask you afterward what I have said. You must be very careful how you answer him." "I will tell him you asked me for a love-potion for the engine-driver's wife," Jeremy answered. "I am listening. What is it you are really going to say?" "That master of yours that Ramsden, who dismissed you so tyrannically just now " "That drunkard?
Mhor had no words to express his pleasure, but in an ecstasy of gratitude he seized the engine-driver's grimy hand and kissed it, leaving that honest man, who was not accustomed to such ongoings considerably confused. Jock did not share Mhor's interest in "base mechanic happenings"; his passion was for the world at large, his motto, "For to admire and for to see."
They tried to catch the disjointed words that fell from his lips at intervals. "Wings," he muttered again, "and a place for the flier why not a car a a a box like an engine-driver's, with handles for controlling " In the minds of the English children, now listening breathlessly, there arose a vividly distinct image of an aeroplane, darkly silhouetted against a pale English sky.
The late passenger plunged in she might, as far as appearances went, be said to have taken a header into the carriage and the door was shut. The guard's whistle sounded. The engine-driver's whistle gave prompt reply, and next instant the train moved. No one could conceive of such a thing as a train starting when John Marrot drove!
We are thus particular in describing the engine-driver's household because, apart from other reasons, a group of human beings who could live, and thrive, and eat, and sleep, and love, and learn, and so forth, in such circumstances is noteworthy. It was quite a treat believe it, reader to see little Gertie and the baby slumber while the engines were apparently having "a night of it" outside!
In less than half-an-hour after this the engine-driver's family sank into profound repose, serenaded by the music of a mineral train from the black country, which rushed laboriously past their dwelling like an over-weighted thunderbolt. Next day John Marrot spent the brief period of repose accorded by the doctor to his leg in romping about the house with the baby in his arms.
Nobody had business at El-Maan, for the simply sufficient reason that you can't do business where governments don't function, where all want everything for nothing, and whoever could pay won't. The engine-driver's grimier assistant swung the water-spout clear and climbed back over the cab, cursing the view, crowds, coal-dust, prospect everything. He meant it too.
There's a hundred burnt a'ready, and the rest treadin' each other's lives out while we stand talkin', to get 'pon the roof and pitch theirselves over!" Now the engine-driver's wife was going to the play that night, and he knew it. She had met him at the station, and told him so, at midday.
The waterworks are situated very near the springs, from which they are only separated by a road, under which the collecting pipes run. There are two circular collecting tanks of brickwork, two pumping wells, engine-house, boiler-house, chimney stack, and engine-driver's dwelling-house, all inclosed by a wall.
For myself, I was inclined to go out to the engine-driver and say to him: "Brother, are you aware you cannot be that the best European trains start with the imperceptible stealthiness of a bad habit, so that it is impossible to distinguish motion from immobility, and come to rest with the softness of doves settling on the shoulders of a young girl?" ... If the fault is not the engine-driver's, then are the brakes to blame?
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