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The two young men of fashion were silent that evening as they drove to the Café Royal in the car which Lucas loosely called 'my car,' but which was his mother's and only to be obtained by him upon his own conditions after delicate diplomacies. The chief of his conditions was that the chauffeur1 should not accompany the car. Lucas, having been engaged upon outdoor work for the firm, had not seen George throughout the day. Further, he was late in calling for George, and therefore rather exacerbated2 in secret; and if George had not been ready and waiting for him at the club trouble might have arisen. George understood his host's mood and respected it. Lucas drove rapidly and fiercely, with appropriate frowns and settings of cruel teeth; his mien3 indeed had the arrogance4 of the performer who, having given only a fraction of his time to the acquirement of skill, reckons that he can beat the professional who has given the whole of his time. Lucas's glances at chauffeurs5 who hindered his swiftness were masterpieces of high disdain6, and he would accelerate, after circumventing7 them, with positive ferocity.
George himself, an implacable critic, could not find fault with the technique of Lucas's driving. But exacerbation8 tells, even in the young, and at Piccadilly Circus, Lucas, in obeying a too suddenly uplifted hand of a policeman, stopped his engine. The situation, horribly humiliating for Lucas and also for George, provided pleasure for half the chauffeurs and drivers in Piccadilly Circus, and was the origin of much jocularity of a kind then fairly new. Lucas cursed the innocent engine, and George leapt down to wield9 the crank. But the engine,
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chauffeur
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bonnet
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dignified
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obstructing
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celebrated
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candid
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modesty
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brazen
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effrontery
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fawning
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inquisitive
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humble
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possessed
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prodigious
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likeness
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gratis
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witty
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placid
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miraculous
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connoisseurs
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brilliance
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tablecloth
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