The old Pantechnicon is devoted to the works of the old masters; I shall not say anything about these, as I do not wish to disturb in any way the critical opinion that Europe has already formed concerning them.
In the new Pantechnicon is exhibited the modern art of Germany.
The heat inside the pantechnicon had produced the necessary moisture upon the fair faces and with this the lamp-black had formed an unholy alliance.
Two minutes later Huggles swung the horses into the entrance of The Poplars, the London house of Lady Knob-Kerrick, and the pantechnicon rumbled its way up the drive.
At the sight of the pantechniconhe grinned and, with a jerk of his thumb, indicated the van as if it were the greatest joke in the world.
The doors of the pantechnicon were burst open and thrown back upon their hinges, where they shivered as if trembling with fear.
From the top of the pantechnicon could be heard Wilkes's persistent cough, whilst Huggles was in charge of the "ribbons.
Bindle and Ginger were seated comfortably on the tail-board of a pantechnicon bearing the famous name of Harridge's Stores.
As the pantechnicon rumbled heavily along by the side of Wimbledon Common, Bindle whistled softly to himself the refrain of "The End of a Happy Day.
As the pantechnicon pulled up in front of Number 110, Bindle glanced up at the house and saw Mr. Llewellyn John looking out of one of the first-floor windows.
Synchronising with the opening of the doors of the pantechnicon was a short, sharp blast of a police whistle.
Whilst Tippitt was enjoying his fourth pint that morning at The Green Lion, Bindle borrowed a large watering-can, which was handed up to him on the roof of the pantechnicon by a surprised barman.
The miracle was that the pantechnicon maintained its course in the middle of the street.
He tried to clamber round the side of the van so as to get to the doors at the back, but a pantechnicon has a wheel-base which forbids leaping from wheel to wheel, especially when the wheels are under water.
The four points of the shafts digging and prodding into the surface of the road gave the pantechnicon something to think about for a few seconds.
The final fifty or sixty yards of Brougham Street were level, and the pantechnicon slightly abated its haste.
The pantechnicon jumped into the canal like a mastodon, and drank.
But the extraordinary thing was, not that it should be a pantechnicon van, but that it should be moving of its own accord and power.
The pantechnicon (doubtless from Birmingham, where her father was) had been brought to her door late in the evening, and was to have been filled and taken away during the night.
He admitted privately then that the saving of a young woman from violent death in a pantechnicon need not inevitably involve espousing her.
The horses had been stabled, probably in Ruth's own yard, and while the carmen were reposing the pantechnicon had got off, Ruth in it.
But unfortunately the precipitousness of the street encouraged its headstrong caprices, and a few seconds later all four shafts were broken; and the pantechnicon seemed to scent the open prairie.
A pantechnicon whose ardour is fairly aroused may be capable of surpassing deeds.
When the inspiring grey preliminaries of the dawn began, Denry saw that at the back of the pantechnicon the waste of waters extended for at most a yard, and that it was easy, by climbing on to the roof, to jump therefrom to the wharf.
But, unaccustomed to the manipulation of shafts, he was rather slow in accomplishing the deed, and ere the first pair of shafts had fallen the pantechnicon was doing quite eight miles an hour and the steepest declivity was yet to come.
He could not jump off; the pantechnicon was now an express; and I doubt whether he would have jumped off even if jumping off had not been madness.
The destruction of the Pantechnicon has presented an opportunity of fairly ascertaining the effect of great heat upon various safes, and, strange as it may seem, scarcely one of the many safes survived the conflagration without injury.
When it is known that the Pantechnicon floors were so covered, proof of its uselessness will be at once admitted.
Soon the pantechnicon was awaking echoes in the drowsy old High Street.
Just as he saw himself being bruised and buffeted by a furious crowd, a shadow fell across the shop as a pantechnicon drew up outside.
Without hesitation the foreman picked him up and bundled him into the pantechnicon and once more barred the door.
He was so occupied when, at half-past seven, a distant rumble announced the arrival of the expected pantechnicon from Lowestoft.
At this moment there was a loud and continuous pounding from within thepantechnicon that he had just left.
The pantechnicon lumbered on towards the meadow adjoining Kerrick Castle, which had been placed at the disposal of the committee of the Temperance Society by its owner.
As the pantechnicon rumbled its ponderous way through hamlet and village, Bindle lightly tossed a few pleasantries to the rustics who stood aside to gaze at what, to them, constituted an incident in the day's monotony of motor-cars and dust.
II By eight o'clock on the morning of the Fete a pantechnicon was lumbering its ungainly way along the Portsmouth Road.
He could not jump off; the pantechnicon was now an express, and I doubt whether he would have jumped off, even if jumping off had not been madness.
The one thing clear certainly appeared to be that Denry, in endeavouring to prevent a runaway pantechnicon from destroying the town, had travelled with it into the canal.
But unfortunately the precipitousness of the street encouraged its head-strong caprices, and a few seconds later all four shafts were broken, and the pantechnicon seemed to scent the open prairie.
But the extraordinary thing was, not that it should be a pantechnicon van, but that if should be moving of its own accord and power.
But he obscurely imagined that his caprice for the possession of sea-going craft must somehow be the result of his singular adventure with the pantechnicon in the canal at Bursley.
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