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The silence was broken, even at this early hour, only by the distant, faint screech of street-car wheels against the rails, or the far sound of an automobile horn down in the town, or the rattle of a sick man's cough on one of the sleeping porches. There was something uncanny, Bristow thought, in the velvet blackness and the heavy silence.
Even the jingle of the street-car bell does not disturb the silence of the streets of this select city. It is to the ordinary Boston what the empty, out-of-season London is to the rest of the busy metropolis. The stranger, jostled by the throng, may not notice that London is empty, but his lordship, if he happens during the deserted period to pass through, knows there is not a soul in town.
The structures seemed to have eyes that looked over them, beyond them, at other things. Afar off the lights of the avenues glittered as if from an impossible distance. Street-car bells jingled with a sound of merriment. At the feet of the tall buildings appeared the deathly black hue of the river.
Why couldn't I appreciate these joys when I had them? One evening, as we went home in an open street-car together, after such a departure, Tom blurted out: "Hugh, I believe I care for your family as much as for my own. I often wonder if you realize how wonderful these children are!
He had yet to learn more of college life than is disclosed by the sporting clique to a street-car conductor; but with characteristic self-assurance he thought he had penetrated to the very heart of the machine. The quiet and unobtrusive student, the leaven of the loaf, the future poet or statesman, had never attracted his attention or that of men of his kind. They saw only what was on the surface.
Auntie says the best time for the glove counter is about twelve-thirty, when the crowd is smallest." "Yes," mumbled Truesdale, irritably; "and lunch at one." Or: "They are going to let me go alone to Modjeska tomorrow afternoon in the street-car; just think of it! I think I shall ask for a seat in the last row I am so timid about fires." Sometimes she would add "destroy this," or, "burn this."
Do you think that business men are always infallible? The street-car lines of this city were at sixes and sevens, fighting each other; money was being wasted by poor management. The idea behind the company was a public-spirited one, to give the citizens cheaper and better service, by a more modern equipment, by a wider system of transfer. It seems to me, Mr.
A woman with a child by the hand had stepped from the sidewalk to hail an approaching street-car, without noticing the automobile that was bearing down behind her. Steve had seen their danger, rushed for the woman and pulled her and the child out of the way, got them clear of the motor. But he was struck, a glancing blow in the back, as the motor sheered off.
In a little while I went back toward the street-car line, and as I passed the vine-clad porch, heard the farmer's bass voice, and stopped to listen, frankly an eavesdropper, and feeling, somehow, that I had earned the right to hear. "Why, o' course, I'll take yeh away, ef yeh don't like it here, little gal," he was saying. "Yes, we'll go right in an' pack up now, if yeh say so.
If it ain't Smiling Mike." Another Voice. "How much do you expect to get, Mike?" "I want to say I can lick any man that wants to come down here and talk to me to my face. I'm not afraid of no ropes and no guns. These corporations have done everything for the city " A Voice. "Aw!" Alderman Tiernan. "If it wasn't for the street-car companies we wouldn't have any city." Ten Voices. "Aw!"
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