A blinding rush, and there burst against the bridge a great volley of sunlit steam.

Milvain and his companion ran to the opposite parapet, but already the whole train had emerged, and in a few seconds it had disappeared round a sharp curve.

The leafy branches that grew out over the line swayed violently backwards and forwards in the perturbed air.
'If I were ten years younger,' said Jasper, laughing, 'I should say that was jolly! It enspirits me.

It makes me feel eager to go back and plunge into the fight again.' 'Upon me it has just the opposite effect,' fell from Marian, in very low tones.
'Oh, don't say that! Well, it only means that you haven't had enough holiday yet.

I have been in the country more than a week; a few days more and I must be off.