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Updated: October 7, 2025
"Did you know that the law forbids females of any age to ride on the top of omnibuses or tramcars?" "Not really?" "Do you know why?" "I can't imagine." "Because in going up and down the stairs those inside might perhaps catch a glimpse of the stocking covering their ankles." "But what "
"Not a bit; she was gazing at the passing tramcars, and evidently on the look-out for some particular line." "What happened next?" demanded the barrister. "Where is Miss Talbot?" "Edith has gone after her," said Fairholme. "What!" cried Brett, more startled than he cared to own. "Yes," broke in Talbot eagerly. "She heard my words and instantly decided to follow her.
Both spoke very subduedly, and tried to keep their shoes from too loudly striking the pavement as they walked; and the wandering wind came upon them in glee round every corner and rustled like a busybody among all the consumptive bushes in the front gardens they passed. Sounds carried far. A long way away they heard the tramcars grinding along the main road.
We got all our men ready for transport, and proceeded to pack up the hospital. The tramcars arrived, and we bade good-bye to our patients, and saw them off, some in ordinary trams and some in specially equipped stretcher-cars. It was a dismal scene.
Attempts have been made to run tramcars with the electricity supplied by accumulators alone, but the system is not economical owing to the dead weight of the cells, and the periodical trouble of recharging them at the generating station.
He liked its narrow pavements thronged with shaggy terrier-like people who walked briskly on short legs; he liked its cobbled roadway, along which passed at intervals tramcars that lumbered along more slowly than any other trams in the world, with an air of dignity which intimated that their slowness was due to no mechanical defect, but to a sagacity which was aware that in this simple town nobody was doing anything more urgent than going home to supper.
The tramcars had ceased to run; the endless daytime procession of motor-cars and carriages was broken by the hours of sleep, and the glimmering road was empty save for immense, white-covered carts which had come from distant Lombardy, and over Alpine passes, bringing eggs and vegetables for the guests of Hercules. Slowly, yet steadily, shambled the tired mules, and would shamble on till dawn.
He would have grown up to man's estate in the factory and have been merged an indistinguishable unit in the drab mass of cloth-capped humans who, at certain hours of the day, flood the streets of Bludston, and swarm on the roofs of clanging and shrieking tramcars, and on Saturday afternoons gather in clotted greyness on the football ground.
Perhaps not quite as usual; for during my illness I had noticed that a sort of tiredness, a soft, nice feeling, seems to come over everything at sunset of a hot summer's day. This universal change affected even the tramcars, so that they rolled up and down the hill more gently. Or it may have been merely my imagination.
They handed up their tickets, and passed into the air of an irregular little street low disjointed shops and houses, where the tramcars tinkled through a slacker tide of humanity than the Londoners were accustomed to. "This way," said Esther. "This is the way to the Rye." "Then Jackie lives at the Rye?" "Not far from the Rye. Do you know East Dulwich?" "No, I never was here before." "Mrs.
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