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Round seance table cloth11/7/2023 ![]() ![]() He saw the arrested traffic, the policeman with white wan face making suggestions to the gibbering engine-driver, and he received the very puzzling impression that the traction engine was all mixed up with him. There had been no break in his consciousness he perfectly recollected slipping, and wondered how he had managed to save himself. ![]() Tilly during this had experienced one moment's excruciating pain, resembling the severest neuralgia as his head was ground beneath the wheel, but almost before he realised it, the pain was past, and he found himself, still rather dazed, floating or standing (he did not know which) in the middle of the road. Tilly's remains, detached with great difficulty from the road (so firmly had they been pressed into it), were reverently carried away into the mortuary. . . Then the ambulance from the hospital was sent for, and Mr. Tilly that the only thing possible was to get the hysterical engine-driver to move clear. The policeman on duty at the corner turned quite faint at the sight of the catastrophe, but presently recovered sufficiently to hold up the traffic, and ran to see what on earth could be done. Then the driver (too late) reversed his engine and passed over him again, and finally lost his head, whistled loudly and stopped. The heavy wheels passed over him from head to foot and flattened him completely out. The words were hardly out of his mouth, when the first half of his horrid anticipations was thoroughly fulfilled. Cumberbatch's séance! Most provoking! A-ow!" "Oh, dear! oh, dear!" he said petulantly, "it will certainly crush me quite flat, and I shan't be able to be at Mrs. Tilly had only the briefest moment for reflection, when, as he slipped and fell on the greasy wood pavement at Hyde Park Corner, which he was crossing at a smart trot, he saw the huge traction-engine with its grooved ponderous wheels towering high above him.
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