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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. Carnforth station is very empty when they arrive there. The wind, with his long, stinging lash, seems to have driven every one off the platform, except the porters and a few ulstered, comforted men, stamping up and down, waiting for the night mail. In the waiting-room Gillian finds half a dozen chilly, muffled women, who grudgingly make way for her to draw in her chair also, and put her boots on the fender. The train is late. It seems to Gillian that she spends a long time staring at the big lumps of coal and the plentiful ashes in the dirty grate before the sounds of distant whistle and near bell tell her that it is coming. Then all the other women pick up their bags and boxes and hurry away, either alone or beckoned off by a summoning husband. Her own escort is the last to appear, but at length he, too, puts in his head. ' Will you come, please ?' She follows him in silence along the platform; but having arrived at the door of an empty carriage, into which he motions her, speaks: ' Will you tell my maid, please ? I always have her in the same carriage with me.' ' I am afraid that you will have to do without her to-night, ' he answers, not offering to move. ' I have just ascertained that neither she nor your luggage has yet arrived.' ' Not arrived ' cries Gillian in a voice of consternation, facing him in the windy gaslight; ' and you suppose that I am going to set off without her Quite impossible Of course I shall wait ' ' That is much more impossible, ' rejoins Burnet, firmly; 'there is no other train till 7.5 to-morrow morning. I have left word that she is to follow you as soon as possible. I think I must ask you to get in, please.' He looks so resolved, and the porters are beginning to shut the carriage-doors so quickly, and her own ..
| ISBN-13 | 9781458969750 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458969754 |
| Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 134 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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