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The snow was deep on the ground; every visible thing lapped in a thick white covering; a still, very grave, very pretty winter landscape, but somewhat dreary in its aspect, to a trainful of people fixed in the midst of it, out of sight of human habitation.
"It is one of your jokes, Mr. Val!" "Indeed, it is the truth. My brother will be down with a trainful; and desires that everything shall be ready for their reception." "My patience!" gasped Mirrable. "And the servants, sir?" "Most of them will be here to-night. The Countess-Dowager of Kirton is coming as Hartledon's mistress for the time being."
She just fixed them. The yard man brought them down to the quarters and we would take them back. She wash them and scrape them till they was white and thin as paper. They was always clean. "She wasn't related to me. I couldn't call her name to save my life. Relatives "We come from Barbour, Alabama with a trainful of people that were immigrating. We just chartered a train and came, we had so many.
A hull trainful o' folks. Wall!" "And oh, Mr. Snubbins!" said Nan Sherwood, "you have milk in those cans, haven't you?" "Sure have, Miss." "Oh, Mr. Carter!" called Nan, running back into the forward car; "here's a man with fresh milk. You don't have to take Mr. Bulson's." "What's that?" demanded the baggage-man, Jim, in surprise. "Where'd he get it?
You'll feel lots better to-morrow, if you do, and there's a to-morrow coming, you know. It isn't likely that anything more will happen tonight, is it?" "I'm afraid it is," said McNally. "You see we think Weeks is coming down the line now, with a trainful of armed men, and he may force us into a fight before morning." "I see," said Katherine.
I shall never forget the pleasure I felt in unexpectedly encountering these summary and highly distinguished sketches in the quietude of Indianapolis. I would have liked to collect a trainful of New York, Chicago, and Boston dilettanti, and lead them by the ears to the unpretentious museum at Indianapolis, and force them to regard fixedly these striking creations.
And then came the day on which the first locomotive, decked out with flags, branches, ribbons, and flowers, pulled a whole trainful of jubilation from Marburg to Klagenfurt. Thirty young girls from the Styrian wine-centre were on the train in their festal finery, going to dance with the lads of Klagenfurt. All sang and shouted for joy because the new time had come, the time of youth.
They were loaded with hose, and were passing to the trainful of workers who were converting Prospect Park into an airship dock. Bert pushed a case of medicine balanced on a bicycle taken from an adjacent shop, to the hotel, and then he was sent to load bombs into the Zeppelin magazine, a duty that called for elaborate care.
A trainful of Wallacks arrived from some distant place, but their ardour for their own candidate was drowned in the unlimited beer provided for them by their opponents. From what I heard about politics, or rather about the Parliament, it seems to me that their House of Commons, like our own, suffers from too many talkers.
The snow was deep on the ground; every visible thing lapped in a thick white covering; a still, very grave, very pretty winter landscape, but somewhat dreary in its aspect to a trainful of people fixed in the midst of it out of sight of human habitation.
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