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Then you had better go, I suppose. Why are you waiting?" "You stopped me for something. What was it?" "I hardly know. It was only I was going to propose " "You were going to propose?" "That you stayed a little longer. You were to take us them, I mean on an excursion to-day in your motor-car. They're getting ready now. They'll be so disappointed." "I'll lend you them my car and my chauffeur."
The summer-house at the edge of the wood once the scene of delightful little flirtations in between the games of tennis was now a weird wreck, consisting of three tottering walls and a broken seat. Oddest of all, there lay near the white marble steps an old, tyreless De Dion motor-car. I have often wondered what the history of that battered thing could be.
Jim is going to give us a jolly good motor-car, and we shall be able to dine out and go to the play and all that if we want to, and people ask us. But it is all so unimportant, Cicely, that side of it. Walter wants to get out of it. He'll be very busy, and the best times we shall have will be in our own little house alone, or going right away when we get a holiday."
Doing that will bring you, quicker than anything else, to the point where you can wear diamonds and ride in your own motor-car and go to the opera. What does your father, Chief Totantora, say to your new ideas, Wonota?" "The chief, my father, says nothing when I talk like that to him. He is too much of an old-fashioned Indian, I fear.
This meant that I was to walk with her a full three-quarters of an hour along the whole of the beautiful sea-front of Nice. Why? I wondered. "But, Bindo, can't you come?" "I'll meet you outside the Suisse. It's better to do that," was his answer. "Go along; you'll find Ewart a clever fellow. He'll tell you how to drive a motor-car."
Will no one revise that 'Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits, adapting it to present needs?... A few hints as to Deportment in the Motor-Car; the exact Angle whereat to hold the Receiver of a Telephone, and the exact Key wherein to pitch the Voice; the Conduct of a Cigarette... I see a wide and golden vista.
Didn't I tell you not to walk more than a few steps?" that gentleman protested. "But you didn't leave me a motor-car and, my visit being at an end, I ce'tainly had to get back to Corbett's." As he spoke he climbed slowly into the rig. "That leg of mine is acting like sixty, Doctor. When you happened along I was wondering how in time I was ever going to make it."
They all laughed and talked. "Annie," she exclaimed, "I saw a lizard dart on that rock!" Her eyes were so quick; she was still so full of life. Morel knew she was coming. He had the front door open. Everybody was on tiptoe. Half the street turned out. They heard the sound of the great motor-car. Mrs. Morel, smiling, drove home down the street.
They could not dispose him in a comely position a fact that specially troubled Sir Walter and Masters doubted not that the doctor would be able to do it. Henry Lennox started as swiftly as possible for the house of the physician, four miles off. He took a small motor-car, did the journey along empty roads in twelve minutes, and was back again with Dr. Mannering in less than half an hour.
"I've had enough. Show us where he is we must get rid of him." "He's got a motor-car," Jimmy went on, parting the warm varnished-looking rhododendron leaves, "and a garden with a tennis-court and a lake and a carriage and pair, and he goes to Athens for his holiday sometimes, just like other people go to Margate."
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