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Stoker meanwhile, hurtling cornerwards, into a second motorcade -- this one in perfect file, upon white engines -- which had wheeled round from the Mall. The confusion obliged both parties to halt.
"Oh dear," Anastasia said, and blushed. "It's Mr. and Mrs. Rexford."
An expert driver, she would thread us out of the traffic-jam and away from the scene. But I directed her to take me to the Chancellor, whom Stoker, springing from his vehicle, had found shrill speech enough to mock.
"Wife-beater!" I heard him jeer, among other things. The Chancellor's white-helmeted escorts drew polished pistols, and two or three professor-generals came running from the Belly-port, which I noticed had reclosed. Rexford, though he reddened at the taunt, seemed in control of himself again, and showed little sign of last evening's
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