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Updated: May 8, 2025
"We are almost there; it's the next station," said the captain with satisfaction, beginning to collect satchels and parcels. "Oh, I am glad!" exclaimed Violet. "I long to see the dear children and to witness their delight in being taken into their father's arms." The concluding words were spoken tremulously and with starting tears as a gush of tender memories came over her.
We coasted past the sharp bows of a navy of great steamships and stopped at last at a government building on a stone pier. It was easy to remember then that the douain was the customhouse and not the hotel. We did not mention it, however. With winning French politeness the officers merely opened and closed our satchels, declined to examine our passports, and sent us on our way.
"It is very nice of you to say so," she replied, "and I shall be glad to be remembered, and hope you will visit us again." When the train came in he rather hurriedly offered his hand and with a "Permit me to thank you again," as he raised his hat, turned away to gather up the satchels and so as not to be witness to her leave-taking from her brother.
"They may be in directly," said Lulu, "let us sit down and rest in these comfortable looking chairs, while we wait." They seated themselves, and as they did so, Zoe and Maud walked in. They too were dressed as travelers, and carried satchels. The four shook hands, Zoe remarking, "So you got in here before us! How did you come?" "In the stage," answered Lulu. "Ah! one travels so slowly in that!
The boys, becoming furious at not being able to measure themselves hand to hand with the puppet, had recourse to other weapons. Loosening their satchels, they commenced throwing their school-books at him grammars, dictionaries, spelling-books, geography books, and other scholastic works.
The Boston train was steaming into the Central Station in New York, and Eloise was gathering up her satchels and wraps, and looking anxiously out into the deepening twilight, wondering if the cars would be gone from the Jersey side, and what she should do if they were.
The signs of life were multiplying around him; he watched the cars roll by with their increasing freight of dingy toilers, the shop-girls hurrying to their work, the children trudging schoolward, their small vague noses red with cold, their satchels clasped in woollen- gloved hands.
Their suitcases they had arranged to send on ahead, so that they would be at each stopping place in the evening when the little party arrived. Then on leaving in the morning the satchels would again be dispatched in advance. Near the end of the route trunks would await them.
Bobbsey said to her husband: "Hadn't you better get some of the satchels together, Richard, and tell Dinah what she is to carry?" "I think I will," he answered, as he went up the car aisle a little way to where a very fat colored woman sat. She was Dinah, the Bobbsey cook, and they took her with them always when going away for the summer.
"You take the hellum while I run back and fetch 'em." He was back in a few moments with the missing satchels. Then Jabez, who was evidently not given to wasting words, drawled: "Did you get the mail? That's in there, too, ain't it?" "Judas priest! So 'tis. Why didn't you remind me of it afore? Set there like like a wooden figurehead and let me run my legs off "
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