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The crew was given instructions on the anticipated sensations that were to follow. "It will be like plunging back from immortality to mortality," Ato told Odin. "Over four years have passed, as light is measured. We have not eaten more than twenty meals." He pulled the lever that slowed them out of the Fourth Drive into three-dimensional space.
She crouched in her seat, her hands clinging tightly to the box, her head turned as though expecting their pursuer to overtake them any moment. Suddenly Tom frowned. At the same time the engine gave a grating "b-r-r-r." "Oh, what is it?" "Oil's getting low Bad " she caught in answer. "Pulling some I'll fool him, though " He slowed down. "Don't " implored Robin. "We'll turn down this road.
Alec entered the station and ran to one end of the platform as the train slowed down and the engine stopped just opposite where he stood. He gazed at the driver and his mate on the footplate. He followed every movement as the driver came round the engine with his long-nosed oil-can, and opened and shut small brass lids and felt the bearings with his hand to see whether they were hot.
We were going along the road nicely now, coasting down the hill. As we approached the bridge, Elaine slowed up a bit, to cross, for the planking was loose. Just then the farmer who had been running down the hill saw us. "Stop!" he shouted. But we did not hear. He ran after us, but such a chase was hopeless. He stopped, in despair.
"No, everyone got out of the way in time," said Bert. "That's good. Who stopped the horses?" the old man asked. "Bert Bobbsey," answered Frank Miller. "He warned his sister and the other girls to steer to one side, and then he threw snow at the horses and made them fall down. Then they slowed up so we could grab 'em." "Ha! Bert Bobbsey did that, eh?" exclaimed aged Mr. Carford.
The steamer was quickly alongside, heaving wildly in the sea, with the Ramsgate lifeboat "Bradford" in tow far astern. She merely slowed a little to admit of the same brief question and reply, the latter being repeated, as the boat passed, for the benefit of the coxswain. As she swept by us I looked down and observed that the ten men who formed her crew crouched flat on the thwarts.
Marlowe forgot his own personal danger in hurrying to the help of their imperilled friends. If the two were too late to be of any assistance they were imminently likely to precipitate themselves into the same whirlpool of woe and death. They had slowed their gait to a walk as they neared the spot, and when they caught the dim outlines of the boat the two stood still.
But she said no more, and I drove on, and hadn't gone fifty yards before the signal was working again. "Oh," says I, "then we've got no sort of dormouse up to be sure. Asleep and awake again all in five minutes"; but I slowed up the car as he directed, and immediately afterwards he called my attention to another party who shared the road with us, and was as curious as the girl.
"Oh, what a sweet little village!" cried Betty, jumping up excitedly, as the automobile slowed down and entered a little narrow lane. Chalfont St. Giles is an extremely picturesque, old-time village. Its thatched-roofed cottages huddle together in a beautiful green valley, and about the edge of a pond where ducks swim, and happy, barefooted children play.
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