The Call-Girls (2012)
“The tunnel was narrow, and the driver had to creep along in first gear; it looked as if the sharp ridges jutting out of the rock might scratch or break a window at any moment. The engine of the ancient bus made such a racket that the Professor’s neighbour, an apple-cheeked young friar, had to wait, before replying, for the end of the tunnel. ‘They must be experienced chaps,’ he said reassuringly. ‘After all, they do the run from the valley up to Schneedorf three times a day.’ ‘He should neverth...eless sound his horn,’ Hector Burch repeated, but his words were swallowed by a waterfall thundering down the rock-face and vanishing into the precipice under the narrow bridge they were crossing. They entered a second tunnel, which seemed an even tighter fit, and much longer than the first.
The young Copertinian Brother, Tony Caspari, enjoyed the thrills of the climb immensely, although he felt less confident than he pretended to be. Neither he nor Burch knew that the villagers of Schneedorf, renowned for their juicy humour, called the three tunnels on their road ‘the spiky virgins’, and that occasionally a mail-bus did get stuck in the middle one, which at a certain point had only a couple of inches’ clearance on either side.MoreLess
The young Copertinian Brother, Tony Caspari, enjoyed the thrills of the climb immensely, although he felt less confident than he pretended to be. Neither he nor Burch knew that the villagers of Schneedorf, renowned for their juicy humour, called the three tunnels on their road ‘the spiky virgins’, and that occasionally a mail-bus did get stuck in the middle one, which at a certain point had only a couple of inches’ clearance on either side.MoreLess
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