Tripping, she fell down almost in front of me.

It was only by a powerful and sudden exertion that I prevented myself from going over her, and as I wheeled across the road my machine came within two feet of her.

She lay there yelling in the dust.

I dismounted, and, picking her up I carried her to the other side of the road.

There I left her to toddle homeward while I went on my way.