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Updated: June 4, 2025
It was with this kiss burning upon his lips that Percival leaned out of the window of the railway-carriage as the train steamed away into the darkness, and waved a last farewell to the woman he loved. He had been rather imperious and masterful during the last few days; he felt conscious of it now, and was half-sorry for it.
So saying, the old sailor led the way into the shop, where on his giving a few short, sharp, and curt directions to an attendant, Dick was taken in hand and twisted this way and that and measured; the whilom ragged runaway being in the end apparelled in a bran-new suit of navy serge that made him look like a smart young reefer, very different indeed to the ragged runaway who had forced his way into the railway-carriage frightening Bob and Nellie during their journey Portsmouth-wards from Guildford twenty-four hours before.
The grander and more distant features of the landscape we may see well enough from the window of the railway-carriage; but it is the foreground that interests and instructs us, like a pleasant gossiping history; and that we had, in old days, from the post-chaise window. It was more than travelling picquet.
How on earth do you support existence? At all events, you don't, as the railway-carriage phrase has it, object to smoking?" "Not at all. I like the scent, but was never tempted to go further." Waymark filled his pipe, and made himself conformable in a low cane-bottom chair, which had stood folded-up against the wall.
For all the world stops at Freiburg to hear and enjoy the great organ, all except the self-satisfied English clergyman, who says he does n't care much for it, and would rather go about town and see the old walls; and the young and boorish French couple, whose refined amusement in the railway-carriage consisted in the young man's catching his wife's foot in the window-strap, and hauling it up to the level of the window, and who cross themselves and go out after the first tune; and the two bread-and-butter English young ladies, one of whom asks the other in the midst of the performance, if she has thought yet to count the pipes, a thoughtful verification of Murray, which is very commendable in a young woman traveling for the improvement of her little mind.
For when her daughter, in the railway-carriage on the way to the Towers, looked up from a letter she was reading over and over again, to say: "I suppose it's no use trying to persuade papa to come to Vienna, after all?" her mother's answer was: "You can try, my dear. You may have some influence with him. I have none.
The news-columns would have been monopolized by foreign politics, and in the cafes he would have heard the latest oscillation in the international balance of power canvassed with the same intense and minute interest that Englishmen in a railway-carriage would have been devoting to Old Age Pensions, National Health Insurance, or Land Valuation.
But there was a certain glow and quietness about her that made him glad. When he was alone in the railway-carriage, he found himself tumultuously happy, and the people exceedingly nice, and the night lovely, and everything good. Mrs. Morel was sitting reading when he got home.
When they were seated in the railway-carriage, he broke out in a sudden excitement: 'Wal, I never thowt, Hannah, to see yo do thissens naw moor! 'Aye, yo wor allus yan to mak t' warst o' things, she said to him, as she slowly settled herself in her corner. Nevertheless, Reuben's feeling was amply justified. It had been a resurrection.
But if I intended to make a profitable business out of my writing, and, at the same time, to do my best for the Post Office, I must turn these hours to more account than I could do even by reading. I made for myself therefore a little tablet, and found after a few days' exercise that I could write as quickly in a railway-carriage as I could at my desk.
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