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On another occasion he was sent to investigate a claim made by a man who was in the accident at Langrye Station.
"Because we have an hour to wait for the up train, and it's pleasanter waiting there than here," replied Blunt; "besides, I have business at Langrye; I want to see one of my friends there who is looking after light-fingered gentry." As this was said significantly Edwin did not deign a reply, but, leaning back in a corner, gazed out at the window and brooded over his unhappy fate.
Blunt followed, the door was banged and locked, the signal was given and the train moved on. "Why do you take me to Langrye instead of back to town?" asked Edwin, after proceeding some distance in silence.
Stay, Jenkins, wasn't he in the accident at Langrye station?" "Perhaps he was; but it's of no consequence to us." "It will be of consequence to us if he goes with the old gentleman," retorted Smith, "for he's a stout fellow, and wouldn't be easy to manage." "I'll manage him, no fear," said Thomson, looking at the unconscious Edwin with a dark sinister smile.
Hows'ever, her father bein' a pointsman, she wos shifted along with him to Langrye station that's where your son is, ma'am an' as we don't stop there we was obleeged to confine our courtship to a nod an' a wave of a handkerchief. Leastwise she shook out a white handkerchief an' I flourished a lump o' cotton-waste.
On the strength of it he began to relate some of Colonel Jones's adventures, addressing himself now partly to the captain and partly to Emma. He had a happy knack of telling a story, and had thoroughly interested his hearers when the train slowed and stopped, but as this was not the station at which he meant to get out Langrye being the next he took no notice of the stoppage.
Mr Sharp felt a strong desire to pommel these fops, because he had found them very difficult to deal with in regard to compensation, the fop with the checked trousers having claimed, and finally obtained, an unreasonably large sum for the trifling injury done to his eye on the occasion of the accident at Langrye station. Mr Sharp could not however, gratify his desire.
"You can see her at Langrye, young man; come, get in," said Blunt, sternly, "the train's just starting." Edwin's blood boiled. He turned to smite the acute-visaged man to the earth, but encountering the serene gaze of the magnificent guard who stood close beside him, he changed his mind and sprang into the carriage.
He was a railway clerk, and had recently been appointed to Langrye station, about fifty miles from Clatterby, which necessitated his leaving his mother's roof; but Mrs Tipps consoled herself with the intention of giving up her little villa and going to live at Langrye.
Bless your heart, ma'am," said John, with another benignant smile, "I went past Langrye station at sixty mile an hour, so we hadn't much chance to speak to each other. It would have been as much as we could have managed, if we'd tried it, to exchange winks." "Dreadful!" exclaimed Mrs Tipps in a low tone. "Is that the usual rate of travelling on your railway?" "Oh dear no, ma'am.
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