Ill never be able to forget his birthmark, Eliza
whispered,Never, never. There was a warm electric smell and one of hot burnt steel.
If anything happens it will be down below.
Their feet thudded almost simultaneously upon the
floor. In the name of God, Woman, what are we coming to? He was immoderately fondof
fish, and he invariably choked upon a bone while eating it.
The twowomen gave loud cries as they saw each
other, and rushed together.
Her white embarrassed smile was atonce painful and
comic: tears pressed closely behind it.
The children, staring, but relieved, settled slowly
back in theirplaces. Thought I hadnt seen you, said the motorman.
A negro bellboy sleepily wafted a gray dust-cloth
across theleather.
Little enough, God knows, for the work youdo. We
will freeze, he yelled, we will freeze in this hellish,damnable, cruel and
God-forsaken climate.
The Square had the horrible concreteness of a
dream.
Thought I hadnt seen you, said the
motorman.
His sallow face, thin-flanked, was hang-dog and
afraid.
In a moment he began to snore gently through his
blubbered lips.
At every station Gant and Eliza maderestless
expeditions to the baggage-car.
He put his bag down and went backthrough the
wash-room into the kitchen. In a moment he began to snore gently through his
blubbered lips.