[The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookThe Magnificent Ambersons CHAPTER XVIII 3/11
Really, I think they'll make laws against them.
You see how they spoil the bicycling and the driving; people just seem to hate them! They'll never stand it--never in the world! Of course I'd be sorry to see such a thing happen to Eugene, but I shouldn't be really surprised to see a law passed forbidding the sale of automobiles, just the way there is with concealed weapons." "Fanny!" exclaimed her sister-in-law.
"You're not in earnest ?" "I am, though!" Isabel's sweet-toned laugh came out of the dusk where she sat.
"Then you didn't mean it when you told Eugene you'd enjoyed the drive this afternoon ?" "I didn't say it so very enthusiastically, did I ?" "Perhaps not, but he certainly thought he'd pleased you." "I don't think I gave him any right to think he'd pleased me" Fanny said slowly. "Why not? Why shouldn't you, Fanny ?" Fanny did not reply at once, and when she did, her voice was almost inaudible, but much more reproachful than plaintive.
"I hardly think I'd want any one to get the notion he'd pleased me just now.
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