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Updated: May 8, 2025
The pelting sing-song of it carried me forward to scenes and sounds of my boyhood days: "N-e-e-ew Haven! ten minutes for refreshments knductr'll strike the gong-bell two minutes before train leaves passengers for the Shore line please take seats in the rear k'yar, this k'yar don't go no furder ahh-pls, aw-rnjz, b'nanners, s-a-n-d'ches, p op-corn!" "and waxed past noon and drew toward evensong.
The silence of her inward life subdued her manner, till now she seemed always to have come from some place on which a deep hush had newly fallen. She answered the door when Bartley turned the crank that snapped the gong-bell in its centre; and the young man, who was looking at the street while waiting for some one to come, confronted her with a start. "Oh!" he said, "I thought it was Marcia.
He had never been clerk, because his literature went no further than the ability to write his name, and to read a passage of the constitution in qualifying for the suffrage. He did not like the new order of things, but he was without a party, and helpless to do more than neglect the gong-bell when he had reason to think Lemuel had sounded it.
I fancied I felt the throb of the engines, and the whirr of the shaft, as it raced when the stern rose at some dive down of the prow; and the sharp "ting-ting" of the engine-room gong-bell struck on my ears above the yelling of the storm, for wild shrieks at times came mingled with the one tremendous overpowering roar.
If you should ever have good and sufficient reason to enter the house, pushing open that lantern-slide of a door which sets a gong-bell ringing to announce visits, you might be able to see Kimika, provided her little troupe be not engaged for the evening. You would find her a very intelligent person, and well worth talking to.
The pelting sing-song of it carried me forward to scenes and sounds of my boyhood days: "N-e-e-ew Haven! ten minutes for refreshments knductr'll strike the gong-bell two minutes before train leaves passengers for the Shore-line please take seats in the rear k'yar, this k'yar don't go no furder ahh-pls, aw-rnjz, b'nanners, s-a-n-d'ches, p op-corn!" "and waxed past noon and drew toward evensong.
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