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Then the grinding brakes warned her that her destination was at hand. The end of the wet platform flashed into view. There were dazzling lights, rumbling hand-trucks, and people running about. As she came to the door of the car she did not go out by the one chosen by the Senator's daughter and her friends the roar of voices burst upon her ear: "Clinton Hotel! This way!" "Pinewood Hall!
He was noticeable to them in the street from a great distance; and when in the morning he strode down the Jetty to his ship, the lumpers and the dock labourers rolling the bales and trundling the cases of cargo on their hand-trucks would remark to each other: "Here's the black mate coming along."
At the Crown, now no more an inn but an hotel, the archway was blocked up with two hand-trucks piled with trunks and portmanteaus, the property of commercial gentlemen and just about to be conveyed to the station.
Down the length of the big room, through a maze of moving hand-trucks and tables and rattling mangles, we followed him to the extreme rear, where he deposited us, in groups of five and six, at the big tables that were ranged from wall to wall and heaped high with wet clothes, still twisted just as they were turned out of the steam-wringer.
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