Margaret Cameron

“ He couldn't own a car! Did you notice his clothes?”
“I did. I also noticed his eye, and it was the eye of a man accustomed to command.”
“You saved me a long, hot Walk”“Oh, his spirit is still high,” she conceded. “That's the beautiful part of him. Life may have baffled him, but he's never been wholly defeated. He still has his pride left.”
“Well, by George! he has plenty of that!”
“Now, why doesn't a man like that succeed?” pursued Marjorie, earnestly. “He's intelligent and at least fairly well educated; he doesn't look dissipated and he does look determined. ”

“ The man wore wrinkled, baggy clothes of a dingy gray, his linen was limp and soiled and his shoes trodden out of shape, and it was not difficult to trace a direct connection between his evident intelligence, the apparent adversity of his worldly estate, and the uncompromising stiffness of his manner toward these prosperous young people who so unceremoniously thrust their better fortune upon him. ”

“ You're on foot and we have an empty tonneau behind here, and we're going the same way. Therefore it's up to us to give you a lift. That's the rule of the road. At least, if it isn't, it ought to be. It's the rule of our road, anyhow,” he added, smiling at his wife.
“If that is true, how comes your tonneau empty?” A shrewd little twinkle appeared in the man's eyes. “There's never any lack of people willing to be carried free.” ”

“ I think it's about a mile farther on. You see, my machine broke down a couple of miles back there, on a cross-road, and as my fool of a driver couldn't fix it up, I set out to walk to a trolley.” The Dollivers both looked back at him, and, observing the humorous wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, laughed light-heartedly, glad that their passenger was sufficiently at ease to jest.
“Isn't that the depraved tendency of every car?” asked Marjorie, quite as if he were in a position to know. ”

“ We've always wondered why some of the nice people who had automobiles didn't share them occasionally with some of the nice people who hadn't, quite regardless of whether they were acquainted socially or not, and we've always said that if ever we owned a car we'd do that. ”

“ One of the joys of having a car would be to share it with other people; and it's so selfish to limit one's sharing to the people one happens to know socially, who can generally be relied upon to make some sort of return in kind. ”

“ Why should his old age be stripped and hard and poor?”
“Business sense is a queer thing, dearie,” said her husband, thoughtfully. “A man may be all that you mention and still not have it. That's probably the trouble with our old friend—though he looks as if he had it. ”

“ IF Galen Corbin had not chosen the morning of June 16th for the interviews concerning the purchase of a large amount of draught gear, the Dollivers would not have been out motoring at all on the 15th, and then the thing could not have happened. ”