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Scarcely two months before I saw it, the city I was told had been full of life; in the long period of calm which followed the bombardment of the railway-station quarter in November 1914 the inhabitants had taken courage, and many of those who had fled from the first shells had sidled back again with the most absurd hope in their hearts.
At the end of that time, the captain being engaged with his agents, I carried Mrs. Beard's bag to the railway-station and put her all comfy into a third-class carriage. She lowered the window to say, 'You are a good young man. If you see John Captain Beard without his muffler at night, just remind him from me to keep his throat well wrapped up. 'Certainly, Mrs. Beard, I said.
She had made an impression which remained till the other party to the conversation reached the railway-station, when it was superseded by the thought of his prospective discussion with Mr. Locket. This was a proof of the intensity of that interest. The aftertaste of the later conference was also intense for Peter Baron, who quitted his editor with his manuscript under his arm.
Then John Cameron went back, and the other two went on their way to the railway-station. "And I will tell you this, Hamish," said the little black Celt, who swaggered a good deal in his walk, "that when you go in the train you will be greatly frightened; for you do not know how strong the engines are, and how they will carry you through the air."
It was a large waggon drawn by two ponderous horses and driven by a man who, dimly perceived by the light of the lantern fastened in front of him, appeared to be asleep. Innocent hailed him and after one or two efforts succeeded at last in rousing his attention. "Which is the way to the railway-station?" she asked. The man blinked drowsily at her. "Railway-station, is it?
I had no feeling before that moment at the railway-station, except " For once Sue was as miserable as he, in her attempts to keep herself free from emotion, and her less than half-success. "Don't cry, dear!" he implored. "I am not crying because I meant to love you; but because of your want of confidence!"
Occasionally, however and then, perhaps, with a promptness and completeness that force us to a realization of how extravagant and senseless our desires are does fulfillment come upon us. As Bressant's strange petition went up through the storm, a sleigh came along from the direction of the railway-station.
This is due, in a large measure, to the fortunate fact that York is well outside the area of coal and iron, and has never become a manufacturing centre, the few factories it now possesses being unable to rob the city of its romance and charm. There could scarcely be a better approach to such a city than that furnished by the railway-station.
The publisher smiled. "They haven't waited," he said. She looked at him strangely. "Haven't waited?" "No they've gone off; taken another train. Literature's like a big railway-station now, you know: there's a train starting every minute. People are not going to hang round the waiting-room. If they can't get to a place when they want to they go somewhere else."
So we go on for an hour or two, occasionally stopping off a small group of farms, to land, perhaps, a farmer returning from the Bergen market, or a girl coming home from her situation in the town. Presently we come alongside a pier under an overhanging cliff, and we see the name of the place written up on a board, just like the name of a railway-station.
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