Appellee testified that the train came through like a bat out of hell, and while this language is probably highly figurative, it nevertheless might tend to indicate that the train was running at a very high speed.

Yet I have at last induced her to withdraw her opposition, by remarking, with a grave air, how glad the embassies are, when there is a dearth of political news, to lay hold of a tale of this kind and to transmit it to their respective courts, as a chronique scandaleuse. The duchess admitted this, and at last, though with a very bad grace, consented to the performance of the opera.

Aëtheogams, plants furnished with air vessels and stomates or air pores.

a constable's staff