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Updated: April 30, 2025
She received with the same patience the sarcasm of a boarder who appeared at the office-door with a bag in his hand, and said he would send an express-man for his trunk.
Nor is it necessary to deny that the frequent intercalations and suspensions of his narrative, racy and suggestive as they are, and overflowing with feeling, will fret a modern reader who is always "on time," like an express-man, and is quite as regardless of what may be expressed. "Titan" is not a novel in the way that Charles Reade's, or Eugene Sue's, or Victor Hugo's books are novels.
"And a jolly good worm it is," answered Dan, as he went laughing away to put a new lash to the whip, wash the wagon, and order Silas about with all the importance of a young express-man. "Before he is tired of this I will find something else and have it ready when the next restless fit comes on," said Mrs.
"Be sure that you don't stay!" screamed Ginger, as the scarlet bedroom slippers and green striped legs flashed out of sight through the bushes. "Back in a minute!" sounded shrilly through the woods. Keith found Malcolm on the back porch, pounding excitedly on a box which the express-man had left there a few minutes before. "It's the camera we have been looking for all week," he cried.
"Pa, he's an express-man, and a good one at that, Mister Whimple. He owns two horses and rigs, and I tell you he keeps agoing all day long, Saturdays too, an' he's a-buyin' the house we're in, an' it ain't no cinch of a job liftin' a mortgage. Many's the time I've heard him say he wished he could lift it as easy as he lifts some of the trunks he carts." "And what are you going to be, William?"
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