half-gropingly

Updated: August 22, 2024

It was a rather narrow escape, though, for the engineer, and fireman." "You were putting it back on the track?" she asked. "There isn't much of it left to put back, as you may have observed," said Lidgerwood. Then he told her of the explosion and the fire. She was silent for a few moments, but afterward she went on, half-gropingly he thought.

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