"It will be all the same to us in the end, David," replied Perry. "At the best our fuel will suffice to carry us but three or four days, while our atmosphere cannot last to exceed three.
I once heard a pirate swear, but his best efforts would have seemed like those of a tyro alongside of Perry's masterful and scientific imprecations.
At my suggestion Perry stopped the generator, and as we came to rest I again threw all my strength into a supreme effort to move the thing even a hair's breadth--but the results were as barren as when we had been traveling at top speed.
"Perry expects me in a quarter of an hour," he said.
"Perry forbids tea," he said, "in the middle of the day."
You leave off bullying me about Perry, and I'll tell you what I'll do--I'll let you see me take a Sprint."
Perry was surprized to hear you had fixed upon South End."
Perry was a week at Cromer once, and he holds it to be the best of all the seabathing places.
my dear, as Perry says, where health is at stake, nothing else should be considered; and if one is to travel, there is not much to chuse between forty miles and an hundred.Better not move at all, better stay in London altogether than travel forty miles to get into a worse air.
The fellow was almost upon Perry when the feel of the gun in my hand awoke me from the lethargy of terror that had gripped me.
Perry alone could have possibly guessed the meaning of the loud report or explained its connection with the sudden collapse of the Sagoth.
As I ran forward toward Perry I fired four more shots, dropping three of our antagonists.