Pethel

Pethel had given me a cigar, and his wife presently noticed that he himself was not smoking.

James Pethel 1915

Pethel had promised his daughter he would take her for a swim; but on their arrival at the bathing-cabins they were ruthlessly told that bathing was défendu à cause du mauvais temps.

James Pethel 1915

Pethel looked so very young for his age, whereas she would have had to be really old to look young for hers.

James Pethel 1915

Those pursed-out lips, so queerly different from the compressed lips of the normal motorist, and seeming, as elsewhere last night, to denote no more than pensive interest, had told me suddenly all that I needed to know about Pethel.

James Pethel 1915

To gloss over the mother's disability, I looked brightly at Pethel, as though in ardent recognition of his prowess among waves.

James Pethel 1915

Pethel took it in the most compendious form, and crumpled it into his pocket.

James Pethel 1915

Loath to betray fear, I hadn't turned my face to Pethel.

James Pethel 1915

I am afraid it was not before my thought about myself that my moral sense began to operate and my hatred of Pethel set in.

James Pethel 1915

Even at the time I gave Pethel due credit for risking his own life, for having doubtless risked it -- it and none other -- again and again in the course of his adventurous (and abstemious) life by field and flood.

James Pethel 1915

Pethel, like the good driver he was, did not talk; just drove.

James Pethel 1915