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Updated: June 10, 2025
It all seemed to be quite personal, somehow.... She gazed through the car-window at the familiar panorama, streets, houses, and people which she now did not see. It had been, indeed, an afternoon of snubs, such as she was hardly accustomed to receiving; and she seemed to have lost something of that wholesome defensive power she had possessed last year, the power of being righteously indignant.
The next morning, every member of the family accompanied John and Anne to Oak Creek, and gave them a merry send-off to Denver. "It's only for a few days, you big sillies!" laughed Anne, as she leaned from the little car-window to answer many questions from her friends on the platform. "True, but think of all that can happen in a few days!
They are his chief solace when on the road. He sows their seed all along the route. He tosses the core from the car-window and from the top of the stage-coach. He would, in time, make the land one vast orchard. He dispenses with a knife. He prefers that his teeth shall have the first taste. Then he knows the best flavor is immediately beneath the skin, and that in a pared apple this is lost.
But in another breath she rose from this desolation, and was talking with impersonal cheerfulness of the sights that the car-window showed.
Larry Donovan was a passenger conductor, one of those train-crew aristocrats who are always afraid that someone may ask them to put up a car-window, and who, if requested to perform such a menial service, silently point to the button that calls the porter. Larry wore this air of official aloofness even on the street, where there were no car-windows to compromise his dignity.
Her thought of him was a backward thought, with a sense in it of his presence just behind her again, perhaps, if she should turn her head, which she would not do, for all the world, to break the spell, when suddenly, face to face, through the car-window, she awoke to his eyes and smile. "How did you know?" she asked, as he came in and took the seat beside her.
Everyone knows the feeling of a crowded train in the middle of the night. We ran along through western Iowa and eastern Nebraska. It had rained for days and the fields were flooded. In the clear night the moon came out and the scene outside the car-window was strange and in an odd way very beautiful.
The gnomes of the railway, having once got me in their grasp, disposed of me as they liked, and quite unexpectedly. From the car-window, as in a panorama of Banvard's, the landscape spun out before my eyes.
Larry Donovan was a passenger conductor, one of those train-crew aristocrats who are always afraid that some one may ask them to put up a car-window, and who, if requested to perform such a menial service, silently point to the button that calls the porter. Larry wore this air of official aloofness even on the street, where there were no car-windows to compromise his dignity.
I can't manage to help a pretty girl raise a car-window, or put her grip into the rack, the way I could once. Fact is, there don't seem to be so many pretty girls as there were, or else I'm gettin' old-sighted, and can't see 'em." He spoke to Mrs. Montgomery, but Cornelia knew he was talking at her. Now he leaned forward and addressed her across Mrs.
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