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Updated: June 19, 2025
"It's only yestiday, so to speak, when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in the country has its weekly-outings uppings, rather. It's been the salvation of them gas companies." "Larst Satiday I got three barrer-loads of gravel off my petaters," said Mr. Tom Smallways. "Three barrer-loads! What they dropped as ballase.
Bert drifted on like a swimmer caught by a current. "Fact is, I'm going to edop' the name of Smallways. I don't want no title of Baron; I've altered my mind. And I want the money quiet-like.
That carried the meeting. That is the end of this story so far as Bert Smallways is concerned. We leave him with his Edna to become squatters among the clay and oak thickets of the Weald, far away from the stream of events.
He himself towers up in the doorway, a big figure with a mouth an eloquent cavity beneath a vast black moustache distorted by his shout to these relentless agents of publicity. He towers there, the most famous man in the country. Almost symbolically he holds and gesticulates with a megaphone in his left hand. Tom and Bert Smallways both saw that return.
Then with an immense impact she exploded.... The Vaterland at that time was beating up to the south of City Hall from over the ruins of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the reports of the gun, followed by the first crashes of the collapsing Dexter building, brought Kurt and, Smallways to the cabin porthole.
The firm of Grubb & Smallways, formerly Grubb, had indeed been singularly unlucky in the last year or so.
But the Bert Smallways who tramped from Cardiff to London vaguely "going home," vaguely seeking something of his own that had no tangible form but Edna, was a very different person from the Desert Dervish who was swept out of England in Mr. Butteridge's balloon a year before.
There are nations that will not fling away the empire of earth in order to slight an unknown man and insult a noble woman whose boots they are not fitted to unlatch. There are nations not blinded to Science, not given over hand and foot to effete snobocracies and Degenerate Decadents. In short, mark my words THERE ARE OTHER NATIONS!" This speech it was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways.
It is a poor heart that never rejoices, and Whitsuntide had an air of coming as an agreeable break in the business complications of Grubb & Smallways.
Some of the plants was broke, and some was buried." "Ladies, they say, goes up!" "I suppose we got to call 'em ladies," said Mr. Tom Smallways. "Still, it ain't hardly my idea of a lady flying about in the air, and throwing gravel at people. It ain't what I been accustomed to consider ladylike, whether or no." Mr.
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