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From its stationary position, Mr Norfolk's car began slowly to move and Gerald could discern the bent figures of the boys [pushing] at the back of it, trying against inertia and gradient to get up a reasonable speed. Mr Norfolk himself sat motionless, hands on steering wheel, with a detached yet anxious expression, as of an artist showing his creations to an important critic.

—Roy Fuller, The Ruined Boys, p. 136.