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When she reached it, in spite of his appeals, she sat down with an absent air, and looked as far withdrawn from the bustle of the platform and from the snuffling train as if on some quiet garden seat along with her own thoughts. In his fat frenzy, which Lanfear felt to be pathetic, the old gentleman glanced at him, and then abruptly demanded: "Are you an American?"
MacAlister shook his head and declared firmly: "There was naething under the seats. I could see that fine. And onyhow we can hae a look at the next stop." "As if he'll be waiting for us, now he kens we're looking for him!" "But there was naething there!" persisted Mr. MacAlister. "Then what's come over the man? Here were we sitting next the platform.
They had no good news to give, however, so the searchers left the platform in disgust, and repaired to the office for lost luggage, where the story of the missing box was recounted to an unsympathetic clerk.
At the top of this was a platform in the open air, but surrounded by a parapet over six feet high. "There must have been battlements which have been filled in since," observed Prince Renine. "Look here, there were loop-holes at one time. They may have been blocked." "In any case," she said, "the telescope was of no use up here either and we may as well go down again." "I don't agree," he said.
The platform, whose length from north to south is about 1582 ft., and breadth from east to west about 938 ft., is approached from the plain by a magnificent double staircase of black marble, of very easy rise, not more than 4 in. each step. Its general height above the level of the plain was originally 34 ft. 9 in.
And so on, always the best of reasons for the most outrageous of behavior. The master weighed himself at the grocer's on a platform balance, some ten days after he began keeping the school. At the end of a week he weighed himself again. He had lost two pounds. At the end of another week he had lost five.
They drew into an enormous station, where there seemed a dense crowd of people, but no porters at all. Bob piled their hand luggage on the platform, and left Cecilia to guard it while he went on a tour of discovery. He hurried back to her presently. "Come on," he said, gathering up their possessions. "There's a big station hotel opening on to the platforms.
To add to the confusion on the platform there were hundreds of Russians and Poles with their families and bundles I asked my porter who they were, and he told me being taken from one place where they had been working in the fields to another place, shepherded by a German overseer with a fierce dog and a revolver; very poor and ragged, all of them, but gentle, and, compared to the Germans, of beautiful manners; and there were a good many officers it was altogether the most excited station I've seen, I think and they stared too, but I'm certain that if I had been in a difficulty and wanted help they would have walked away.
They were not listening to my words, they were thinking of my relationship to them, of the mystery involved in my being there on the platform surrounded by the men of the county whom they most respected. They could not take my theories seriously, but they did value and to the full, the honor which their neighbors paid me their son!
And now they were standing on the platform, and the train might start at any moment. "I trust you won't get like the New Yorkers, Honora," said Aunt Mary. "Do you remember how stiff they were, Tom?" She was still in the habit of referring to that memorable trip when they had brought Honora home. "And they say now that they hold their heads higher than ever."
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