It worked through from Swindon with a test train of 16 coaches and the new W.R. dynamometer car, the whole totalling 571 tons; this is one of the heaviest trains ever worked by a single-handed locomotive over the South Devon banks—in fact, it was competently restarted from a test stop on Dainton bank.

[…]a red flannel shirt of Fred's, soft and blouselike[…]

He only perceived a difference in the degrees of their noxiousness to Europe.

[…] They’re the tedious little drones who refer, with fabricated ennui, to the tiresome habits of their midget-minded husbands. […]