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ONE:Allingham had an explanation for everything. He said that the loud noise was due to some kind of machine that this ingenious lunatic carried in his pocket. He argued that the rapid flight was probably to be accounted for by a sort of electric shoe. Nothing was impossible so long as you could adduce some explanation that was just humanly credible. And the strange antics of the Clockwork man, his sudden stoppings and beginnings, his[Pg 44] "Anglo-Saxon" gestures and his staccato gait, all came under the heading of locomotor ataxia in an advanced form. TWO:"I don't quite follow you," interjected Allingham."Nearly all the vast crowd in the streets consisted of men; now and then a woman was visible, but only rarely, except near the river-side, where there were some of the class that live on the water. We met some of the small-footed women, and it was really painful to see them stumping about as if they were barely able to stand. Double your fist and put it down on the table, and you have a fair resemblance of the small foot of a Chinese woman; and if you try to walk on your fists, you can imagine how one of these ladies gets along. Some of them have to use canes to balance themselves, and running is quite out of the question. The foot is compressed in childhood, and not allowed to grow much after five or six years of age. The compression is done by tight bandages, that give great pain at first, and sometimes cause severe inflammation.
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ONE:THE PATERNAL NURSE. THE PATERNAL NURSE.He jerked his head slowly round and gazed at the surrounding objects. "It's such an[Pg 79] extraordinary world. I can't get used to it at all. One keeps on bumping into things and falling into thingsthings that ought not to be there, you know." TWO:
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ONE:"No, I do not like him. Do you?"The sooner you take her off to the seaside the better, he said. Change of air will do her good. I should go this week, if I were you. TWO:HERD OF BUFFALOES MOVING. HERD OF BUFFALOES MOVING.
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ONE:Lady Keeling will be only too gratified, said her husband. TWO:"Certainly," Frank responded. "Here we go again;" and there was another "Hip! hip! hurrah!"
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ONE:"I am not nameless; I only ask leave to withhold my name until I have told one or two other things."Ten pounds! he said. I shouldnt dream of giving more than seven for it. Even that would be a fancy price. TWO:Ferry's response was to lay it back again and there ensued a puerile tussle that put me in a precious pout, that I should be kept waiting by such things. But presently the three parted to resume their several cares, and the moment Ferry touched my arm to turn me back toward the house I was once more his worshipper. "Well!" he began, "you have now two fine horses, eh?"
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