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Updated: May 26, 2025
When he walked he went like an express train; when he sauntered he relapsed into the slowest possible snail's-pace, but he did not graduate the changes from one to the other. When he sat down he did so with a crash.
Dreading the certain cast of the almost unescapable net, the secutor keeps always on the move, and continually alters the direction and speed and manner of his movement, taking one short step and two long, then three short and one long, breaking into a dogtrot, slowing to a snail's-pace, leaping, twisting, curving, zigzagging, ducking and in every way attempting to make it impossible for the retiarius to foretell from the movement he watches what the next movement will be.
"Just at the nick of time our nags 'll be telling the Doppies we're coming." "Perhaps not," I replied. "Where they are they have horses about them in all directions; and if they heard a snort, why shouldn't they think it was from one of their own ponies?" "I hope they will," said Denham impatiently. "But, I say, the chief isn't going to keep us at this snail's-pace is he?
"I promised myself that. Not a wink of sleep betwixt Innspruck and Italy; and here was I fast as a log this side of Trent. I think our postillion sleeps too;" and letting down the window he quietly called Misset. "We have fresh relays," said he, "and we travel at a snail's-pace." "The relays are only fresh to us," returned Misset. "We can go no faster.
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