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Updated: May 7, 2025
Sinking down at one end of the hemicycle, she studied the carved lion's head that ornamented the arm-rest, and the paw, thrusting out from the side-support, upon the pavement beneath.
Molesworth was preparing to follow and by the cramped feeling in his fingers was aware at the same instant that he had been gripping the arm-rest almost desperately when the guard of the train came running by and paused to thrust his head in at the open doorway to explain. "Engine's broken her coupling-rod, sir just before we came to the viaduct. Mercy for us she didn't leave the rails."
'If you begin to think over that, she said, 'you'll go to pieces and be ashamed. Tell me yours, and I'll tell you mine. Only be quiet be quiet, lad, or you'll set me off! She made shift to soothe him, though her chin trembled. 'Well, said he at last, picking at the arm-rest between them, 'mine's nothing much, of course. 'Don't be a fool! That's for doctors and mothers.
"There's plenty of room; I told him as he came in to occupy number 4. 'Porter, put this gentleman's baggage in number 4. This is number 10; yours is the third section forward." Another half hour passed. John opening his handbag, took out some papers; then, reversing the end, moved it so the bag protruded slightly from under the arm-rest into the aisle.
Some one will see us. 'We needn't kneel. Stand up and say "Our Father." We must! It was the first time since childhood that Conroy had prayed. They laughed hysterically when a curve threw them against an arm-rest. 'Now for breakfast! she cried. 'My maid Nurse Blaber has the basket and things. It'll be ready in twenty minutes. Oh! Look at my hair! and she went out laughing.
Here in this very window he had held him, and there was the identical arm-rest over which hung the body of the dead engineer. And this was his boy. How the years fly! He looked at the boy, and the boy was looking at him with his big, sad eyes. The furnace door was ajar, and the cab was as light as day.
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