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By one of those strange chances, such as seem to us when we meet them nothing short of preconceived arrangement, enough seats had been left unoccupied in the rear coach, all in one place, to accommodate a second party, which came straggling through with hand-baggage hooked upon all its dependent accessories. It proved very pleasant for all involved.
He was subconsciously aware that, deserted though the compartment was, it yet exhaled an alien suggestion, embodied in the rugs, the coats, the hand-baggage of the card-playing travellers, which was heaped upon the seat opposite.
The train appeared to be very full, but at last she espied a first-class smoking carriage which boasted but a single occupant a man in the far corner, half-hidden behind the newspaper he was holding and, tipping her porter, she stepped into the compartment and busied herself bestowing her hand-baggage in the rack. The man in the corner abruptly lowered his newspaper.
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