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Updated: June 18, 2025
The ticket-seller at the station merely glanced at the paper in my hand when I bought a ticket, and the gendarmes at the ticket window in Paris, when there were any, often there were none did no more. Of course, the possession of a sauf-conduit presupposes all one's papers en règle, but I never saw anyone examining to make sure of that. All this is ended. We are evidently under a new régime.
"Did you see him?" asked the ticket-seller. "Yes, but I didn't get anything." Otto looked so down that the ticket-seller was moved to pity, to generosity. "Well, I'll give you a tip. Keep after him; keep your eye on him. He's got a rich father-in-law." Otto leaned heavily on the sill of the little window. "Father-in-law?" A sickening suspicion peered into his mind.
Crossley, they said, was exclusive, had the swollen head, had forgotten that only a few years before he had been a cheap little ticket-seller grateful for a bow from any actor who had ever had his name up.
The next morning, as he was being shaved in the village barber's shop, which was at the time crowded with customers, the ticket-seller to the fair came in. Here is Barnum's own account of what followed: "What kind of a house did you have last night?" asked one of the gentlemen in waiting. "Oh, first-rate, of course.
Not until the usher had brought them to their box did Mrs. Hilliard comprehend the situation. She whispered, "Oh, Ross!" hesitated an instant, then entering, laid aside her wraps under the opera glass inquisition invited by her blond hair. "How could you?" she murmured, as the house darkened. "I wouldn't back down before that ticket-seller with you there behind looking so handsome and swell."
Swaying for a moment with the shock of the wound, down to the ground he settled like an empty sack, falling across the legs of the ticket-seller. Startled and shocked, it seemed, by the consequences of her deed, the woman approached and for a moment gazed down, horror-stricken, into Circuit's face.
Godfrey, this is the quickest roll-call I ever seed! They've got halfway through Truro County. That fellow can talk faster than a side-show, ticket-seller at a circus." The clerk was, indeed, performing prodigies of pronunciation. When he reached Wells County, the last, Mr. Bixby so far lost his habitual sang froid as to hammer on the rail with his fist.
At the sound of her voice, the tone in which these words were pronounced, the ticket-seller looked at her hard, with a bold, intrusive, diagnosing stare: "Lovers!" he told himself conclusively.
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