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Updated: May 11, 2025
I will pinch, save, and starve even, and all I earn shall be yours.... Just see.... I have splendid prospects.... The locomobile will soon be repaired ... and the moor is very lucrative ... it is fifteen feet deep ... you can measure it.... The cart-load of peat fetches ten marks ... and the dowry shall be paid to the last farthing in yearly instalments."
They maintained that it resembled the fat servant-girl with a long neck, who a short time ago had been dismissed on account of her slatternliness, and they called it, after her, "Black Susy." The locomobile kept this name forever after in Meyerhofer's house. Next morning the noise began afresh. The ten hired workmen stood in the yard and did not know what to do.
When the foreman had come, Paul went into his father's bedroom, who stared at him confusedly. "Father," he said, modestly, though his heart swelled with pride, "the locomobile is in working order; as soon as the ground has thawed the work on the moor can begin." The old man said, "Leave me in peace," and turned his head to the wall.
He came out with a vicious determination to do what he pleased. "Well, here's the millionaire!" said Sidney Finkelstein. "Yes, I saw him in his Locomobile!" said Professor Pumphrey. "Gosh, it must be great to be a smart guy like Georgie!" moaned Vergil Gunch. "He's probably stolen all of Dorchester.
Little white clouds rose before him and disappeared, to reappear again in other places. Then suddenly "Black Susy" came to his mind. She was standing in the farthest corner of the shed, buried among old rubbish. A pang shot through his breast. Shall she perish now as well she, on whom his heart had ever placed its hopes? "Save the locomobile!" he shouted down. But no one understood him.
Gilson was going to show Claire that they were just as hardy adventurers as that horrid Daggett person. So she didn't take the limousine, but merely the seven-passenger Locomobile with the special body. They were ever so rough and wild. They had no maid. The chauffeur was absolutely the only help to the Gilsons, Claire, Jeff, and the temporarily and ejaculatorily nature-loving Mrs.
They took a cord, and crying "gee" and "whoa," raced wildly through the garden. One of them was the locomobile, the other the horse, but each wanted to be the locomobile, because then she got father's black hat put on for the chimney. Before going to sleep they had already given a name to the new monster.
Paul knew as much as before. "What is a locomobile?" he asked. "A steam-engine which can be moved anywhere, and which great land-owners use to turn their thrashing-machines; one can also harrow and plough with it, for such a thing has more strength than ten horses." "But why is it drawn by horses, then?" he asked. "Because by itself it cannot move anywhere," was the answer.
He had found it lying on the locomobile the day the work was begun again, and had carried it about with him ever since. "I wonder if I shall ever learn that, too?" he asked himself, in tumultuous joy at what he had already accomplished. He put the flute to his mouth and tried to blow it the minutes passed so slowly that he was forced to try and while away the time.
Something that appeared to be a chimney stuck out beyond it, and when the wheels staggered on the uneven ground bent to the right and the left like a man politely bowing. He gazed at the wonder for a while, then ran to his mother, whom he eagerly pulled to the door by her dress. She shaded her eyes with her hand and looked down the road. "That is a locomobile," she said at last.
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