The Motor Maid eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 352 pages of information about The Motor Maid.

The Motor Maid eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 352 pages of information about The Motor Maid.

THE MOTOR MAID

by

C. N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON

Authors of “Lord Loveland Discovers America,”
“My Friend the Chauffeur,” “The Princess Virginia,” etc.

With Four Illustrations in Color by F. M. Du Mond and F. Lowenheim

[Illustration:  “We raced along a clear road, the Etang shimmering blue before us”]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York
All rights reserved, including that of translation
into foreign languages, including the scandinavian
Copyright, 1910, By Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, August, 1910
The Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.

To The Three Gertrudes

ILLUSTRATIONS

“We raced along a clear road, the Etang shimmering
  blue before us” Frontispiece

         &nb
sp;                                           facing page
“While I wrestled ... with a bodice as snug as
  the head of a drum, the lord of all it contained
  appeared in the doorway” 48

“It took half an hour to dig the car out, and push
  her up from the hollow where the snow lay thickest” 272

“Jack’s hand, inside Mr. Stokes’s beautiful, tall
  collar, shook Bertie back and forth till his teeth
  chattered like castanets” 328

CHAPTER I

One hears of people whose hair turned white in a single night.  Last night I thought mine was turning.  I had a creepy feeling in the roots, which seemed to crawl all the way down inside each separate hair, wriggling as it went.  I suppose you couldn’t have nervous prostration of the hair?  I worried dreadfully, it kept on so long; and my hair is so fair it would be almost a temptation for it, in an emergency, to take the one short step from gold to silver.  I didn’t dare switch on the light in the wagon-lit and peep at my pocket-book mirror (which reflects one’s features in sections of a square inch, giving the survey of one’s whole face quite a panorama effect) for fear I might wake up the Bull Dog.

I’ve spelt him with capitals, after mature deliberation, because it would be nothing less than lese majeste to fob him off with little letters about the size of his two lower eye-tusks, or chin-molars, or whatever one ought to call them.

He was on the floor, you see, keeping guard over his mistress’s shoes; and he might have been misguided enough to think I had designs on them—­though what I could have used them for, unless I’d been going to Venice and wanting a private team of gondolas, I can’t imagine.

I being in the upper berth, you might (if you hadn’t seen him) have fancied me safe; but already he had once padded half-way up the step-ladder, and sniffed at me speculatively, as if I were a piece of meat on the top shelf of a larder; and if half-way up, why not all the way up? Il etait capable du tout.

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