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[2647] it be she fears a change in the ^of weather? said the director.
[2648] x^He added, turning towards Lemuel, I am asking you a question.
[2649] The sky was cloudless, the air still. [2650] Where is the beautiful young
man with the Messiah beard.^? [2651] But in that case would she not have
telephoned? said the director.

[2652] The waggonette. [2653] Up on the box, beside the coachman, Lady
Pedal. [2654] On one of the seats, set parallel to the wheels, Lemuel,
Macmann, the Sar^xon and the giant. [2657] On the other, facing them,
the youth, the thin one, one and two colossi dressed in sailor-
suits. [2658] As they passed through the gates the children cheered.
[2659] A sudden descent, long and steep, sent them plunging towards the
sea. [2660] Under the drag of the brakes the wheels slid more than they
rolled and the stumbling horses reared against the thrust.

[2661] Lady
Pedal clung to the box, her bust flung back. [2662] She was a huge, big,
tall, fat woman. [2663] Artificial daisies with brilliant yellow disks
gushed from her broad-brimmed straw hat. [2664] At the same time behind
the heavily spotted fall-veil her plump red face appeared to
pullulate. [2665] The passengers, yielding with unanimous inertia to
the tilt of the seats, sprawled pell-mell beneath the box. [2666] Sit
back!^! cried Lady Pedal? Pedal. [2667] Nobody stirred.

[2668] What good would th
that do? said one of the sailors. [2669] None, said the other. [2670] Should
they not all get down, said Lady Pedal to the coachman, and walk?
[2672] When they were safely at the bottom of the hill at last Lady Pedal
turned affably to her guests. [2673] Courage my hearties!^! she said, to
show she was not superior. [2674] The waggonette jolted on at with