"
"Good gracious!" the Major exclaimed, affecting 'dismay. "So your
little shops are going to ruin all your old friends, Eugene!"
"Unless my old friends take warning in time, or abolish smoke and get
a new kind of city government. I should say the best chance is to
take Warning."
"Well, well!" the Major laughed. "You have enough faith in miracles,
Eugene--granting that trolleys and bicycles and automobiles are
miracles. So you think they're to change the face of the land, do
you?"
"They're already doing it, Major; and it can't be stopped.
Automobiles--"
At this point he was interrupted. George was the interrupter. He had
said nothing since entering the dining room, but now he spoke in a
loud and peremptory voice, using the tone of one in authority who
checks idle prattle and settles a matter forever.
"Automobiles are a useless nuisance," he said.
There fell a moment's silence.
Isabel gazed incredulously at George, colour slowly heightening upon
her cheeks and temples, while Fanny watched him with a quick
eagerness, her eyes alert and bright.
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