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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill A HALF PROMISE Peb and I wondered, in our happiness, at the motorists who passed us, wrapped up like mummies, turning neither to the right nor the left. Only a bit of visible skin told us that they were human beings. They flashed by us now and then, like images on a lantern-slide; but I am glad to say that on that first day out we encountered only a few such unimaginative folk, and we pitied them for what they missed. Their goggles reminded me of dreadful and fearsome masks, such as the children wear at Thanksgiving time; and as I have never been able to understand the custom of the children on that particular day, so I have never been able to fathom the man or woman who wraps up like a polar bear in the name of happy motoring, unable to speak, hear or see. Their bulk looms large in the close-up, as the moving-picture people would say; and they sway at the sudden turns, no more crying out in the presence of danger than in the presence of beauty. There they sit, voiceless, solid as adamant, certain, I suppose, that they are having a splendid time. The craze for speeding has driven them to this barbaric costume. Perhaps underneath they are estimable folk; and perhaps every day I meet them in the street and fail to recognize them. Truly we know little about our neighbours. Motoring has made many of us Dr. Jekylls and Mr. Hydes. I am sure I prefer to motor as I am, and see something on the way?those trees, for instance, that stand like torches in the dusk of the year. I said that we had made no plans. But I had forgotten that we had promised some friends in Norfolk that, if possible, we would lunch with them on our first day out; yet we made it clear that not even the prospect of a delightful hour at their board could urge us to greater speed. If we came, all right. If...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217442572
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217442579
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 91 gr


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