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Swayed once more by the habits of cultivated intellect, the young priest and his two companions forgot themselves together in the midst of their fellow-passengers, all those poor, suffering, simple-minded folk, whom wretchedness stupefied.
To be worthy of her a man should have left in him ten times my vitality, I thought; he should be one who looked forward rather than back; he should bring to their joint wayfaring a far keener zest for life than my years in our modern Grub Street had left me. How vapid was the talk of my remaining fellow-passengers; how slow of understanding, and how preoccupied with petty things they seemed!
Begrimed with coal, smeared with whitewash, and covered with dust and flue, he crawled slowly out and gazed imploringly up at his fellow-passengers. After the first shock of surprise they lay back in their seats and laughed till they cried. "Why, you young rascal!" they said, when they recovered breath, "you don't mean to say you've been under there the whole time?" "I have indeed," said Paul.
I speak of the best among my fellow-passengers; for in the steerage, as well as in the saloon, there is a mixture.
There was a general stampede ashore as soon as we moored, and gharries covered spring carts drawn by active little Sumatra ponies, and driven by natives of Southern India, known as Klings, were immediately requisitioned, but nothing came of it apparently, and when I came back at sunset I found that, after an hour or two of apparently purposeless wanderings, all my fellow-passengers had returned to the ship, pale and depressed.
Air comparatively fit to breathe, food comparatively varied, and the satisfaction of being still privately a gentleman, may thus be had almost for the asking. Two of my fellow-passengers in the second cabin had already made the passage by the cheaper fare, and declared it was an experiment not to be repeated.
The close companionship with his fellow-passengers on the small steamer, the compulsion he was under to listen to their jokes and to the superficial, reiterated tale of the disaster made Frederick inwardly impatient. Unlike the others, he had not yet recovered his old relation to life. His soul was numbed.
Fischer, who had been saying farewell to his guests, turned towards her. "You are not thinking of the trip home yet, Miss Van Teyl?" he asked. "Oh, I don't know," she answered a little evasively. "I'm out of humour with London just now." "Perhaps we shall be fellow-passengers on Thursday?" he ventured. "I am going over on the New York." "I never make plans," she told him. "In any case," Mr.
As the custom- house officer wrenches a board off the broad, flat box containing my American bicycle, several fellow-passengers, prompted by their curiosity to obtain a peep at the machine which they have learned is to carry me around the world, gather about; and one sympathetic lady, as she catches a glimpse of the bright nickeled forks, exclaims, "Oh, what a shame that they should be allowed to wrench the planks off.
If they glanced at their fellow-passengers, it was shyly and askance, with their lips in motion all the time, like children afraid to let their eyes wander from their lesson-book. One of them, however, took occasion to pull down R -'s dress, which, in her frisky movements about the carriage, had got out of place, too high for the nun's sense of decorum.
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