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Updated: June 29, 2025
There are many who have never heard of Alexandrowo, and others who know it only too well. How many a poor devil has dropped from the footboard of the train just before these electric lights were reached to take his chance of crossing the frontier before morning history will never tell!
"A short ugly gash. He had caught his head on the footboard in falling. I may add that on the occasion of his professional visit his breath smelled strongly of spirits, and I rather suspected that his accident might have been traceable to his condition." "But he wasn't actually drunk?" "By no means.
When I had come to that conclusion, I come to another, which shall likewise be yours. Often had I regretted that she never had heard me on the footboard, and that she never could hear me. It ain't that I am vain, but that you don't like to put your own light under a bushel. What's the worth of your reputation, if you can't convey the reason for it to the person you most wish to value it?
Suddenly the train stopped at a little village station, and a Prussian officer jumped up with a great clatter of his sabre on the double footboard of the railway carriage. He was tall, wore a tight-fitting uniform, and had whiskers up to his eyes. His red hair seemed to be on fire, and his long mustache, of a paler hue, stuck out on both sides of his face, which it seemed to cut in two.
A smart burly man, with acute features, stepped on the footboard of the carriage, and, moving with the train, asked what sort of rug it was. "Eh! a b-b-blue one, wi-wi " "With," interrupted the man, "black outside and noo straps?" "Ye-ye-yes yes!" "All right, sir, you shall have it at the next station," said the acute-faced man, stepping on the platform and allowing the train to pass.
The fellow reeled out of the car, but before I could get started again he fired twice at me, happily missing me each time. He made a desperate dash to get on the footboard again, but I prevented him, and in turn was compelled to fire. My bullet struck his right shoulder, and his weapon fell to the ground.
The next morning when Oliver Hampden, before the first peep of light, waked in his little bed, which stood at the foot of his grandfather's bed in the tiny room which they occupied together, and standing up, peeped over the footboard to catch his grandfather's "Christmas gift," he was surprised to find that the bed was empty and undisturbed.
The doctor, of course! These women had to do what the doctor ordered. He would see the doctor! upon which, with a precision quite amazing, all the green monkeys on the footboard of the bed put their thumbs to their noses at him.
A fever of a hundred and four or thereabout may fuse one's mind in a sort of fiery crucible, but when it gets to a hundred and six all the foreign thoughts, like seeing green monkeys on the footboard and wondering why the doctor is walking on his hands all these things melt away, and one sees one's past, as when drowning, and remembers to hate one's relations, and is curious about what is coming when one goes over.
Often they had started when, with a sudden movement, his hat entered the diligence through the small window, while he clung with his other arm to the footboard, between the wheels splashing mud.
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