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His two leading passions are vanity and money." Caesar knew the Minister, but the Minister did not know Caesar. He imagined him to be a man of brilliant intellect, but incapable of grasping realities. After thinking a long while over the business, while he was undressing to go to bed in the sleeping-car, Caesar said: "There is only one thing to find out.
They lost sight of the invalid in the hurry of getting places on the cars, and they never saw her again. The man at the wicket-gate leading to the train had thrown it up, and the people were pressing furiously through as if their lives hung upon the chance of instant passage. Basil had secured his ticket for the sleeping-car, and so he and Isabel stood aside and watched the tumult.
His brother, his punctilious and dignified brother, alighting from a sleeping-car at seven o'clock in the morning, wearing a dress suit and a silk hat!
If it also had its inconvenience and its danger he realized these too. "Isabel," he said, "we are going home." "Very well, then it will be your doing." "Quite. Do you think you could stand it as far as Cologne? We get the sleeping-car there, and you can lie down the rest of the way to Ostend." "This afternoon? Why I'm perfectly strong; it's merely my nerves that are gone."
The next morning, when the train for the East pulled out of Illinoistown, Miss Jinny Carvel stood on the plat form tearfully waving good-by to a knot of friends. She was leaving for Europe. Presently she went into the sleeping-car to join the Colonel, who wore a gray liners duster.
He was met outside the station, just under the wide verandah, by the officials, who gave him a brief outline of the facts, so far as they were known, and as they have already been put before the reader. "The passengers have been detained?" asked M. Floçon at once. "Those in the sleeping-car only " "Tut, tut! they should have been all kept at least until you had taken their names and addresses.
Lanyard, now with no fear of being recognised, ranged alongside and listened openly. It seemed that, booked for Paris on the rapide to leave at one-twelve in the morning, this lesser rascal had been assigned a certain sleeping-car berth. Business of displaying the ticket: identified by Lanyard as the object over which the conference had split.
There are those who could sleep. But not everybody could sleep. Well and heartily do I remember the moment when another friend of mine, in the midst of an interminable scolding that was being given by a nasal-voiced conductor to a passenger just before the dawn, exposed his head and remarked: "Has it occurred to you that this is a sleeping-car?"
Peter checked Honora's trunk, and Peter had got the permission through Judge Brice which enabled them all to pass through the grille and down the long walk beside which the train was standing. They entered that hitherto mysterious conveyance, a sleeping-car, and spoke to old Mrs. Stanley, who was going East to see her married daughter, and who had gladly agreed to take charge of Honora.
"Then he's finished with that foolish business about the lady; had enough of it, I suppose; burnt his fingers and done no earthly good." "How do I know? It's not my business; but I fancy I have fallen into a snug berth, a soft job, better than making beds in a sleeping-car and being shaken to death in express trains." "Good wages, if it's a fair question?" "Fifty francs a week, pour tout potage."
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