Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1906 Excerpt: ... Ill Having become the owner of a motor-car, Macollister next devoted his spare time by day, and his dreams by night, to the work of learning to run it. Forgan was to teach him this, and for the first lesson Forgan chose a beautiful afternoon and the principal parkway. Everybody Macollister knew seemed to be out taking the air, and he felt far less comfortable in his new seat behind the wheel than in his old one on the bench or at the club. It was some relief to him that all his attention was required by the car; he could very well refuse to see those who passed him, though he was keenly conscious that they saw him, and usually when he was doing something wrong and Forgan was conspicuously exerting himself trying to instruct him how to do it right. At the end of this lesson he ventured to suggest that the next one be taken at night. "Why?" Forgan asked. "Because the people will be off the streets then, and it will be quieter and--and more roomy." "And darker, and harder to see what you are doing. Don't you expect to use your car except when the people are off the streets?" He could not argue the point with Forgan. He felt that in the presence of this man--this man so impressively master of the mysteries of the automobile--he was in the presence of a superior, and instinctively he was as deferential to him as one of his own court officers was to Judge Macollister. And when Forgan finished his instructions and turned him loose, alone in the world, as Macollister with some levity, though with something that was not altogether levity, expressed it, he was affected with a sobering, if not awing, realization of every man's responsibility to make his own way. He was impressed with it more soberingly, perhaps, than he had been since those youthful days when he had l...
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