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"That ought to be just back of my house," said the former. "It's a short train four parlour-cars and a baggage-car," added Keating. "It ought to be easy to recognise." The old Scotchman put in an objection. "The difficulty may be to get out of this house. I don't believe they mean to let you get away to-night." "By Jove, that's so!" exclaimed Keating. "We're talking too much let's get busy.
It was not necessary that everybody should take the same view of life that pleased us. The world would not get on very well without people who preferred parlour-cars to canoes, and patent-leather shoes to India-rubber boots, and ten-course dinners to picnics in the woods.
Dosson wanted to know was how everything had struck him over there, especially the Pickett Building and the parlour-cars and Niagara and the hotels he had instructed him to go to, giving him an introduction in two or three cases to the gentleman in charge of the office.
Could anybody have imagined the torment of that any of those ladies who rode in softly upholstered parlour-cars, or reclined upon the decks of steam-ships in gleaming tropic seas? Old Mike was good to his new "buddy." Mike's spine was bent and his hands were hardened by forty years of this sort of toil, so he could do the work of two men, and entertain his friend with comments into the bargain.
For more than an hour I was pushing my way through this miniature wilderness of half a mile; and then I emerged suddenly, to find myself face to face with a railroad embankment and the afternoon express, with its parlour-cars, thundering down to Southampton! It was a strange and startling contrast.
The explorer's joy, the sense of adventure, the feeling of wildness and freedom, withered and crumpled somewhat preposterously at the sight of the parlour-cars. My scratched hands and wet boots and torn coat seemed unkempt and disreputable. Perhaps some of the well-dressed people looking out at the windows of the train were the friends with whom we were to dine on Saturday.
It was not unusual for persons from the parlour-cars to ask leave to walk through the emigrants'. But Elizabeth's companion said a few words to her, apparently in Russian, and Elizabeth, stooping over her, held out the milk.
Patty thought the appointments more luxurious than our own parlour-cars, for the seats were beautifully upholstered in a pearl-grey material, and everything was lavishly decorated, after the French fashion. All of these compartments opened on to a corridor which ran along the side of the car, and Patty soon discovered that thus she could visit her neighbours in the other compartments.
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