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My Friend the Chauffeur (1905)

av C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson

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"WANTED, LADIES, TO CONDUCT. An amateur automobilist (English, titled) who drives his own motor-car accommodating five persons, offers to conduct two or three ladies, Americans preferred, to any picturesque centres in Europe which they may desire to visit. Car has capacity for carrying small luggage, and is of best type. Journeys of about 100 miles a day. Novel and delightful way of travelling; owner of car well up in history, art, and architecture of different countries. Inclusive terms five guineas a day each, or slight reduction made for extensive trip. Address-" When Terry had read aloud thus far, I hastily interrupted him. I wasn't quite ready yet for him to see that address. The thing needed a little leading up to; and by way of getting him quickly and safely on to a side rack I burst into a shout of laughter, so loud and so sudden that he looked up from the little pink Riviera newspaper of which I was the proud proprietor, to stare at me."What's the matter?" he asked.I subsided. "The idea struck me so forcibly," said I. "Jolly clever, isn't it?""It's a fake, of course," said Terry. "No fellow would be ass enough to advertise himself like that in earnest. Probably the thing's been put in for a bet, or else it's a practical joke."… (mer)
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Though the action is uneven, the descriptions of place just glow. The characters are alive and the phrasing is sometimes superb. I googled their route and some of their stops. What a tour! Glad I went along. ( )
  2wonderY | Dec 27, 2023 |
Gets kind of exciting towards the end, but there's a lot of skimmable portions before that. Ralph decides that his best friend Terry should put his car to good use and make some money by hiring it out to ladies who would like a sightseeing trip. Terry thinks this is a ridiculous idea, but then he sees the potential passengers and is rather taken with one of them. So he goes along as driver to three women and his friend Ralph through France and Italy. Throw in a dastardly foreign prince and lots of raptures over the countryside through which they drive, and you've got another addition to the Williamsons' oeuvre.
Not as enjoyable as some of their others. Four people share in the narrative, and the little romance takes place mostly under the radar. ( )
  Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
I've been working my way through the Williamson's books as some fun light reading. There are a lot of similarities throughout all their books but the basically fall into two categories: travelogue or melodramatic adventure. My Friend the Chauffeur leans towards travelogue but ends with plenty of melodramatic suspense and action.
The premise: a poor titled English man becomes the hired chauffeur and tour guide for his own car and travels around Europe with several American ladies and a couple other characters. ( )
  wrightja2000 | Sep 6, 2018 |
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"WANTED, LADIES, TO CONDUCT. An amateur automobilist (English, titled) who drives his own motor-car accommodating five persons, offers to conduct two or three ladies, Americans preferred, to any picturesque centres in Europe which they may desire to visit. Car has capacity for carrying small luggage, and is of best type. Journeys of about 100 miles a day. Novel and delightful way of travelling; owner of car well up in history, art, and architecture of different countries. Inclusive terms five guineas a day each, or slight reduction made for extensive trip. Address—"
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Why is it that so many bad words begin with D or H? One almost gets to think that they are letters for respectable people to avoid.
It was a wonderful darkness, though, that hadn't forgotten the sunset, and the white mountains were great banks of roses against a skyful of fading violets.
The Prince walked after her, just far enough behind not to step on her train (he isn't the kind of man who would ever tear a woman's dress, though he might pull her reputation to pieces)…
In about three minutes we were true-teufing on once more; but we hadn't been going for ten minutes when, half-way up a hill, the motor gave a weary sigh, and moving languidly, as if it were very tired and discouraged, yet trying its best to obey. We were on the outskirts of a village called Erba, and the automobile crawled on until it saw a little inn, with a lot of peasants sitting in the cool shade of an arbor, drinking wine; there it stopped, which was wonderfully intelligent of it.
From Udine we went southward; and at the Austrian custom house, across the frontier, we had to unroll yards of red tape before we were allowed to pass. Almost at once, when we were over the border, the scenery, the architecture, and even the people's faces, changed; not gradually, but with extraordinary abruptness, or so it seemed to me.
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"WANTED, LADIES, TO CONDUCT. An amateur automobilist (English, titled) who drives his own motor-car accommodating five persons, offers to conduct two or three ladies, Americans preferred, to any picturesque centres in Europe which they may desire to visit. Car has capacity for carrying small luggage, and is of best type. Journeys of about 100 miles a day. Novel and delightful way of travelling; owner of car well up in history, art, and architecture of different countries. Inclusive terms five guineas a day each, or slight reduction made for extensive trip. Address-" When Terry had read aloud thus far, I hastily interrupted him. I wasn't quite ready yet for him to see that address. The thing needed a little leading up to; and by way of getting him quickly and safely on to a side rack I burst into a shout of laughter, so loud and so sudden that he looked up from the little pink Riviera newspaper of which I was the proud proprietor, to stare at me."What's the matter?" he asked.I subsided. "The idea struck me so forcibly," said I. "Jolly clever, isn't it?""It's a fake, of course," said Terry. "No fellow would be ass enough to advertise himself like that in earnest. Probably the thing's been put in for a bet, or else it's a practical joke."

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