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Updated: May 21, 2025
Even the aisles were full of bundle-laden passengers, until the first few stations were past. Then Betty and Joyce found seats together, and a fat old lady good-naturedly drew herself up as far as possible, in order that Mary might squeeze past her to the vacant seat next the window. "I can't set there myself, on account of the cold coming in the cracks so," she wheezed apologetically.
A tinny, nasal voice with a whine and a hoarseness almost hiding the words. The cash registers clink, clink. "Are you waited on, madam? Five cents a package, madam." The crowds, tired eyed, shabbily dressed, bundle-laden, young, old the crowds shuffle up and down, staring at gewgaws, and the love-me love songs follow them around.
When they left the store it was nearly midnight. Belated shoppers, bundle-laden, carrying holly wreaths, with strange handles, and painted heads, and sticks protruding from lumpy brown paper burdens, were hurrying home. They stumbled home, too spent to talk. Fanny, groping for the keyhole, stubbed her toe against a wooden box between the storm door and the inner door.
A narrow-chested woman, caught in the whorl of one such vortex, fainted back against the bundle-laden arms that pressed her on.
Lenore waited for him at the step, and as he mounted the porch, burdened by the three girls, his anxious, sadly smiling wife came out to make perfect the welcome home. No not perfect, for Anderson's joy held a bitter drop, the absence of his only son! "Oh, dad, what-all did you fetch me?" cried Kathleen, and she deserted her father for the bundle-laden Jake. "And me!" echoed Rose.
As luck would have it, Aunt Trudy decided to come home on an earlier train and found herself in the midst of bundle-laden Eastshore shoppers who had spent the day in the city and were returning with their spoils. Motherly Mrs. Dunning occupied a seat with Aunt Trudy and what more natural than that she should speak of how much help Rosemary had been to her that summer?
The crowd here sad faced, tired-walking, bundle-laden. The crowd continually dissolving amid street cars and autos is the villain. A crowd of shoppers buying slippers for uncle and shawls for mother and mufflers for brother and some bars of soap for the bathroom. Buying everything and anything that fill the fan-shaped buildings with their glinting windows.
And darkly foiling the homely brightness came the picture of rushing, overstrung, bundle-laden city crowds, of shop-girls white and weary, of store-heaps of cedar and holly sapped by electric glare. Rush and strain and worry yes and a spirit of grudging! How unlike the Christmas peace of this white, wind-world outside his window!
If I've got to leave off slang, Dad and Lizzie can leave off a few of their bad habits." She carried the suitcase on into her bedroom and Lizzie, coming in, hot and bundle-laden an hour later, found the living-room in immaculate order and Lydia, in an old dress, blacking the kitchen stove.
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