The Lightning Conductor Discovers AmericaWilliamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
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The Lightning Conductor Discovers America
Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
Automobiles -- Fiction
"I don't want to know about Bunker Hill Monument being built," she
turned round to snap. "I want to think it built itself. And I don't want
to know where Presidents are buried. I only want to know where they had
their golden weddings, and where they lived happily. Besides, it gives
me a crick in my neck to be always listening to some one behind. If I
can't talk to Mr. Stor-r-rm for fear of upsetting him, I won't talk to
anybody, please!"
There was one in the eye for Caspian; and it gave me my opportunity to
murmur with mere perfunctory politeness (?) that it didn't "upset" me in
the least to talk or be talked to while I "chauffed."
After that we did converse a little, about Captain John Smith and Miles
Standish, without Caspian venturing to butt in; but I must say he got
revenge through my losing myself in Hingham. You remember that wonderful
street of lawns and trees with a perfect specimen of an old church? I
believe it's the oldest church, still in use, in the United States, but
I dared not state this lest C. should seize the chance to snap me up and
say I was mistaken. Well, anyhow, I shared so recklessly in Pat's
admiration of the said church and the quaint, pleasant houses with
flag-staffs sticking out over their doors, that I fulfilled Caspian's
prophecy and got lost. The first thing I knew we were bumping over an
appalling road, and had to turn back.
"I told you so!" I heard C. muttering like distant thunder, and asked
him mildly if he preferred to take the wheel; but his finger was even
more painful than his temper. I felt his glare like a gimlet in the
back; but Pat more loudly than needful expressed her delight in seeing
Hingham a second time. "It is exactly like Cranford," she said. "New
England seems to be full of Cranfords, but Hingham is the most Cranfordy
of all. And I don't believe even the Old England Cranford could have
such elms in such a wonderful street. They are like tall, transparent
green wine glasses set for a dinner party of Titans."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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