...There is no smug Pullman attached to the train, and the day coaches of the East are replaced by free chair cars, with each seat cut into two adjustabl... ...ining enough to plan them? Hundreds of factories trying to make attractive motor cars, but these towns—left to chance. No! That can’t be true. It must... ... speed to any of these Marmons from Minneapolis!” Only when she was in the motor car did she distinguish the three people who were to accompany them. ... ...rol had walked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street ... ...se-blackened concrete floors. Tire advertisements. The roaring of a tested motor; a racket which beat at the nerves. Surly young men in khaki union- o... ...pike-fishing was better on the west shore of Lake Minniemashie than on the east—though it was indeed quite true that on the east shore Nat Hicks had c... ...” “Don’t you find that some of the farmers think they pay too much for the services of the towns?” “Oh, of course there’s a lot of cranks among the fa... ... no matter what else I do.” The poorer houses of Gopher Prairie, where the services of Miles Bjornstam were a luxury—which included the shanty of Mile... ...of Forest Hills on Long Island. Devonshire cottages and Essex manors and a Yorkshire High Street and Port Sun- light. The Arab village of Djeddah—an i...

...ard and hear the clink and clatter of hansoms and the quick quiet whirr of motors; I go in vivid recent memories through the stir in the lobbies, I si... ...p coal; there was a wild outbreak of brickfields upon the claylands to the east, and the Great Growth had begun in earnest. The agricultural placiditi... ...n, which used to be three miles to the west, and Blamely four miles to the east of Bromstead, were experiencing similar distensions and proliferations... ... a place where I slept and read, and the mooning explorations of the south-eastern 51 H G Wells postal district which occupied the restless evenings ... ...cent years as I have clattered dinnerward in a hansom or hummed along in a motor cab to some en- gagement. The main gate still looks out with the same... ...tered very much in the world. 66 The New Machiavelli He went over us as a motor-car goes over a dog. There was a sort of energy about him, a new sort... ...re some things,” he said, “that a man who means to work—to do great public services—must turn his back upon. I’m not discussing the rights or wrongs o... ...e not his ways. Also he hated particularly, and in this order, Londoner’s, Yorkshiremen, Scotch, Welch and Irish, because they were not “reet Stafford... ...ord woman who took a first that year. She spent the summer in Scotland and Yorkshire, writing to me continually of all she now meant to do, and stirri...

...shaping the world, has thus far remained a dream. H. G. Wells.H. G. WELLS. Easton Glebe, Dunmow, 1921. 6 The World Set Free PREL PREL PREL PREL PRELU... ...ise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing much ... ...’ movement, and a galaxy of brilliant writers, in America, Europe, and the East, stirred up the world to the thought of bolder rearrangements of so- c... ...ts or very high flying. He also, he records, owned one of those oil-driven motor-bicycles whose clumsy complexity and extravagant filthi- ness still a... ...orses; though there were also in all the European armies a small number of motor-guns with wheels so constructed that they could go over broken ground... ...ion there were large developments of the engineer- ing arm, concerned with motor transport, motor-bicycle scouting, aviation, and the like. 40 The Wo... ...n the wake of the osten- sible religions. They were ceasing to command the services of any but second-rate men. After the middle of the eigh- teenth c... ...l and to eat such scanty refreshment as she had brought with her until her services were required again. From her position upon the terrace this young... ...ted that with such a motor barge as ours it would be possible to reach the Yorkshire coast within four-and- twenty hours. But this idea I overruled be...

...e. One was in the Indian Civil Service and one in the rapidly devel- oping motor business. The daughters, he had hoped, would be their mother’s care. ... ...—there are splendid places to be got down in Surrey, and a little runabout motor is quite within my means. You 44 Ann Veronica know they say, as, ind... ... of the village street of Caddington, the passing of a goggled car-load of motorists, and the struggles of a stable lad mounted on one recalcitrant ho... ...up person, or older, and very dull. Then she and her husband went off to a Yorkshire practice, and had four more babies, none of whom photographed wel... ...ar ar ar art 5 t 5 t 5 t 5 t 5 SHE HAD SENT HER FATHER a telegram from the East Strand post-office worded thus: All is well with me a... ... other under a Harley Street doctor, and both men de- clined her proffered services with the utmost civility and admiration and terror. There was also... ...mself by telling the Japanese student that Western art was symmetrical and Eastern art asymmetri- cal, and that among the higher organisms the tendenc... ...y and savage once more, and returned sud- denly to gibe and insult. Men do services for the love of women, and the woman who takes must pay. Such was ... ...t found 107A, one of those heterogeneous piles of offices which occupy the eastern side of the lane. She studied the painted names of firms and person...

...ble. The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East;the most western of splen did bridges over the Danube, which is her... ...leman of that coun try. I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, M... ...are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended f... ...ate was situated. The other two were Exeter, and Chapter 2 31 Whitby on the Yorkshire coast. It was the better part of an hour when the Count retur... ... let me say frankly, lest you should think it strange that I have sought the services of one so far off from London instead of some one resident there... ... Crowds are scattering backward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds. I shall send, in time for your next issue, further de ... ...they had decided that I must spend the night. They are hospitable, with true Yorkshire hospitality, give a guest everything and leave him to do as he ... ...injury was a depressed fracture of the skull, extending right up through the motor area. The Professor thought a moment and said, “We must reduce th...

...er. We live like fighting-cocks, and Charles takes us out every day in the motor—a tomb with trees in it, a hermit’s house, a wonderful road that was ... ... a nap of a hun- dred years, to such life as is conferred by the stench of motor-cars, and to such culture as is implied by the advertisements of anti... ...e her?” “Possibly.” “I’ll call you a cab. No; wait a mo—” He thought. “Our motor’s here. I’ll run you up in it.” “That is very kind.” “Not at all, if ... ... thoroughfare roared gently—a tide that could never be quiet, while in the east, invisible behind the smokes of Wapping, the moon was rising. “That re... ...ng Naples, of the movements of Mr. Wilcox and Evie, who were mo- toring in Yorkshire. Margaret could not bear being bored. She grew inattentive, playe... ..., “Father! I say! look who’s here.” “Evie, dearest girl, why aren’t you in Yorkshire?” “No—motor smash—changed plans—father’s coming.” “Why, Ruth!” cr... ...but, of course, there’s the fortnight I’ve been away with the other car in Yorkshire.” The mud came off easily. “Charles, your father’s down. Somethin... ...hase a new home. Tibby, now in his second year at Oxford, was down for the Easter vacation, and Margaret took the op- portunity of having a serious ta... ...make life more human.” “Then the fellows know one again. Especially in the East, if you tip, they remember you from year’s end to year’s end.” “Have y...

...face of bronze. In fact, Mason suffered least of all, for he spent his time in Eastern Tennessee, in the Great Smoky Mountains, living over the scenes... ...ame hushed by blissful sucks of raw tallow), was surprised. Though he sold his services to them and agreed to travel even to the never opening ice, he... ...nd one day, irritated by its steadfastness of purpose, he turned it toward the east. He watched eagerly, but never a breath came by to disturb it. The... ...nly old dreams of paradise. The sunlands of the West and the spicelands of the East, the smiling Arcadias and blissful Islands of the Blest, — ha! ha!... ...coal wagon, and an east bound Kearny Street car, wildly clanging its gong, the motorman shouting defiance at the crossing policeman, was dashing forwar... ...amsters on the locked wag ons roared encouragement and their own delight. The motorman, smashing helmets with his controller bar, was beaten into ins... ...ered a head above the crowd. His arm was still about the woman. And she in the motorcar, watching, saw the pair cross Market Street, cross the Slot, a... ...off a wreck in the schooner that brought him. Mr. Haveby next selected a young Yorkshire giant to relieve Bun ster. The Yorkshire man had a reputatio... ...ght. He was a regular little lamb — for ten days, at the end of which time the Yorkshire man was prostrated by a combined attack of dysentery and feve...