The wind still blew in his direction, and before we reached the end of the street he was laying himself out at the rate of nearly four miles an hour, leaving the cripples and stout old ladies simply nowhere. ###>Le vent continua de souffler dans sa direction, et nous n’avions pas atteint le bout de la rue, que nous filions a pres de sept a l’heure, laissant sur place infirmes et grosses vieilles dames.