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It was late in the afternoon when I arrived, and raining; and as I walked in great streets, of the very name of which I was quite ignorant double, treble, and quadruple lines of horse-cars jingling by hundred-fold wires of telegraph and telephone matting heaven above my head huge, staring houses, garish and gloomy, flanking me from either hand the thought of the Rue Racine, ay, and of the cabman's eating-house, brought tears to my eyes.
Do you suppose that because his story is to open with my beautiful self on board that ship, I'm to be there without his making any effort to get me there? Not I! You and the children and Osborne and Balderstone may go down any way you please. You may go on the elevated railroad or on foot. You may go on the horse-cars, or you may go on the luggage-van.
A good deal of strength, intelligence, and skillful management of horses was required of a Broadway stage-driver. He seems to have been decidedly a higher order of man than the driver of the present horse-cars. He usually had his primary education in the country, and graduated as a thorough expert in managing a very difficult machine, in an exceptionally busy thoroughfare.
Absorbed in this occupation, he drove on, and gave up all such dangerous experiments as playing tag with horse-cars and trucks, and arrived at home in time for luncheon unhurt. Mrs. Jarley was somewhat alarmed at the unexpected return of Mr.
At a later period I began to use such words as PERHAPS, SUPPOSE, EXPECT, FORGET, REMEMBER. If Helen asked, "Where is mother now?" I replied: "I do not know. PERHAPS she is with Leila." She is always anxious to learn the names of people we meet in the horse-cars or elsewhere, and to know where they are going, and what they will do.
Meanwhile I superintended not merely my own men, but the railroad men; and when the delays of the latter, and their inability to understand what was necessary, grew past bearing, I took charge of the trains myself, so as to insure the horse-cars of each section being coupled with the baggage-cars of that section.
The Boston streets seemed very queer and clean and empty to the children, and the buildings little; in the horse-cars the Boston faces seemed to arraign their mother with a down-drawn severity that made her feel very guilty.
Let us make much of our two hundred and fifty years, and cherish the present as our golden age. We healthy-minded people in the horse-cars are loath to lose a moment of it, and are aggrieved that the draw of the bridge should be up, naturally looking on what is constantly liable to happen as an especial malice of the fates.
It was late in the afternoon when I arrived, and raining; and as I walked in great streets, of the very name of which I was quite ignorant double, treble, and quadruple lines of horse-cars jingling by hundred-fold wires of telegraph and telephone matting heaven above my head huge, staring houses, garish and gloomy, flanking me from either hand the thought of the Rue Racine, ay, and of the cabman's eating-house, brought tears to my eyes.
From this spot to the slight curve in the Prospekt, at the Znamenskaya Square, a distance of about a mile, where the Moscow railway station is situated, and where the train of steam tram-cars is superseded by less terrifying horse-cars, the whole aspect of the avenue is that of a provincial town, in the character of the people and the buildings, even to the favorite crushed strawberry and azure washes, and green iron roofs on the countrified shops.
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