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The head ticket-collector touches him on the shoulder and repeats impatiently: "T-t-tickets, p-p-please!" The passenger starts, opens his eyes, and gazes in alarm at Podtyagin. "What? . . . Who? . . . Eh?" "You're asked in plain language: t-t-tickets, p-p-please! If you please!" "My God!" moans the scraggy-looking man, pulling a woebegone face. "Good Heavens!
"So he couldn't have fallen over in the darkness," continued the ticket-collector. "If all had gone well with him, he'd have been down in Highmarket here by dusk." "I'm obliged to you," said the superintendent. "It's worth knowing, of course. Came from Darlington, eh? Was he alone?" "Quite alone, sir." "You didn't see anybody else going that way across the moors, did you?
"Hav-'nt! Hav-'nt!" "That's just what this boy will say when the guard asks him presently for his ticket, or the money for his fare," said the Captain, with his comical chuckle and merry twinkle of his bird-like eyes, pointing to Dick as the ticket-collector banged open the door of the carriage as if trying to wrench it off its hinges and held out his hand. "He haven't got his ticket.
The ticket-collector on duty at the entrance of the two waiting-rooms was a long way off, and could not hear them even if he understood English, which was improbable. There were so many other languages at this meeting-place of East and West which it was essential for him to comprehend. The room was absolutely bare; not so much as a dog could be concealed in it.
The ticket-collector pointed out my man to me in the first passenger coach, the "ladies' car" he is a school-teacher and tobacco smoke distresses him and by the time we pulled into Panama I had the desired information. Dinner was not to be thought of; I had barely time to dash through the second-class gate and back along the track to Balboa labor-train.
Jobson nodded delight at her daughters. "He's coming round," she whispered. "He liked that ticket-collector calling him 'sir' yesterday. I noticed it. He's put on everything but the topper. Don't say nothing about it; take it as a matter of course."
The long cushion, rapt from another compartment, was placed on the knees of the quartette, and the game began. The ticket-collector examined the tickets of Brindley and Edward Henry, and somehow failed to notice that they were of the wrong colour. And at this proof of their influential greatness Messieurs Garvin & Quorrall were both secretly proud.
She asked the hobbledehoy, who took her ticket, where Mrs Devitt lived, at which the youth looked at her in a manner that evidently questioned her sanity at being ignorant of such an important person's whereabouts. Mavis repeated her question more sharply than before. The ticket-collector looked at her open mouthed, glanced up the road and then again to Mavis, before saying: "Here her be."
"Maybe now," said the cook derisively, "you'd be in favour of soda water with the squeeze of a lemon in it." "I would not," said the ticket-collector, "but a drop of sweet oil the way the joint would be kept supple." "Get a jug of cold water," said Mannix, "and something that will do for a bandage." The attendant, with a glance at the cook, compromised the matter.
They drove by the crowd, blended now into soft colours, to a music of merry bells. They took the train at Westland Row and in a few seconds, as it seemed to Jimmy, they were walking out of Kingstown Station. The ticket-collector saluted Jimmy; he was an old man: "Fine night, sir!" It was a serene summer night; the harbour lay like a darkened mirror at their feet.
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