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Updated: May 20, 2025
She laughed aloud, frankly, deliciously. And her laugh was still rippling about the room when motor-horns hooted upon the drive. At once the laughter vanished. "We shall be amongst horses in a minute," she observed with a sigh. "I can smell the stables already," and she retired to her book in the embrasure of the window. A joyous and noisy company burst into the room.
Imagine Paris with her bridges, palaces, parks, with the Seine, the Tuileries, the boulevards, the glittering shop-windows conveyed to you only through noise. Only through the shrieks of motor-horns and the shuffling of feet. The men who have been blinded in battle have lost more than sight. They have been robbed of their independence. They feel they are a burden.
But Piccadilly showed a line of faint stationary lights and still fainter moving lights. A mild hum and the sounds of motor-horns and cab-whistles came from Piccadilly, where people were abroad in ignorance that the raid was not really over. All the heavens were continually restless with long, shifting rays from the anti-aircraft stations, but the rays served only to prove the power of darkness.
The Prussian caste isn't worse than that." I turned and looked out of the window again. But I saw nothing of the crowd below. I saw only a great tide of blood rising higher and higher, and I heard, not the squawking of motor-horns, but the moans of men in innumerable sheds, where they lie on straw waiting for the surgeon's knife and crying out for morphia.
It is, in truth, at no great distance from the club, not half a minute in one's motor. In fact, one could almost walk it. But in Central Square the quiet of Plutoria Avenue is exchanged for another atmosphere. There are fountains that splash unendingly and mingle their music with the sound of the motor-horns and the clatter of the cabs.
They were now within sight of the stream of cabs and omnibuses crossing to and from the Surrey side of the river; the sound of the traffic, the hooting of motor-horns, and the light chime of tram-bells sounded more and more distinctly, and, with the increase of noise, they both became silent.
The shops and cafés cease, the jingle of trams and the trumpeting of motor-horns die out, and here, all at once, are silence and solitude, and the dignified reticence of the windowless Arab house-fronts.
French staff officers came at full speed, with long shrieks on their motor-horns, and little crowds gathered round the cars to question the drivers. "Ca marche, la guerre? Il y a du progres?" British officers came also, with dispatches from headquarters, and two soldiers with loaded rifles in the back seats of cars that had been riddled with bullets and pock-marked with shrapnel.
The man whom Hunterleys had captured was shrieking and cursing. From beyond came the tooting of motor-horns as the cars returned. Lane heard nothing. He saw nothing but the white face of the girl as she stood in the shadows of the barn, with its walls of roughly threaded pine trunks. "But I have scarcely ever spoken to you in my life!" she protested, looking at him in astonishment.
"And that dog's been on the pavement this six years can't sleep even there, poor dear, because of the motor-horns and its shattered nerves." "Movin' everywhere," said my uncle. "I expect you're right.... It's a big time we're in, George. It's a big Progressive On-coming Imperial Time. This Palestine business the daring of it.... It's, it's a Process, George. And we got our hands on it.
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