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Duff-Whalley and Muriel, their sables and their Rolls-Royce, ceased to be great weights crushing life and light out of her, and became small, ordinary, rather vulgar figures; she forgot her own home-made frock and shabby slippers; and even the fire seemed to feel that things were brightening, for a flame struggled through the backing and gave promise of future cheerfulness.
He knew all that was to be known about the different kinds of cars; and he would roll their names on his tongue Panhard and Fiat and Daimler and Mercédès and Rolls-Royce, as if the sound of them caressed him like music.
He dies in it that he may live again.... Nevertheless, its final value, in the open market of the world, is a great deal less than that of a fur overcoat, half a Rolls-Royce automobile, or a handful of authentic hair from the whiskers of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. For humility and poverty, in themselves, the world has little liking and less respect.
"Yes, you are right. It wouldn't have been possible. You have your name and your fortune to make. I too I shall marry, I suppose, some one" and she suddenly smiled rather bitterly "who will give me a Rolls-Royce motor-car." And so they rode on very reasonably. Noon had passed. A hush had fallen upon that high world of grass and sunlight. The birds were still.
"What's happened?" "I'll tell you," said Dick. "Is that a good car?" Caldegard knew how to obey. "It's Broadfoot's Rolls-Royce, six cylinder," he replied promptly. "Tell the man he must take you back to town." When the order was given, the lover, in curt and terrible phrases, told the father what had happened.
The engines were mounted in a power unit structure, separate from the car and connected by wooden gang ways supported by wire cables. A complete electrical installation of two dynamos and batteries for lights, signalling lamps, wireless, telephones, etc., was carried, and the motive power consisted of either two 250 horse-power Rolls-Royce engines or two 240 horse-power Fiat engines.
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