 ... part red-hot. It is insufferably close; and you see the hot air fluttering between yourself and any other object you may happen to look at, like the ghost of smoke. In the ladies' car, there are a great many gentlemen who have ladies with them.  Works - Page 71by Charles Dickens - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - 1877 - 502 pages
...car, there are a great many gentlemen who have ladies with them. There are also a great many ladies who have nobody with them : for any lady may travel...from one end of the United States to the other, and l>o certain of the most courteous and considerate treatment everywhere. The conductor or check-taker,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1880 - 496 pages
...car, there are a great many gentlemen who have ladies with them. There are also a great many ladies who have nobody with them : for any lady may travel alone, from one end of t'ie United States to the other, and be certain of the most courteous and considerate treatment everywhere.... | |
 | Nella Braddy Henney - 1922 - 318 pages
...were outrageously bad, but there was one point on which we won a perfect score. "Any lady," he said, "may travel alone, from one end of the United States...most courteous and considerate treatment everywhere. Nor did I ever once, on any occasion, anywhere, during my rambles in America, see a woman exposed to... | |
 | John William Starr - 1928 - 404 pages
...car there are a great many gentlemen who have ladies with them. There are also a great many ladies who have nobody with them; for any lady may travel...most courteous and considerate treatment everywhere. ... If a lady takes a fancy to any male passenger's seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him... | |
 | Robert Sobel - 2000 - 392 pages
...car there are a great many gentlemen who have ladies with them. There are also a great many ladies who have nobody with them : for any lady may travel...most courteous and considerate treatment everywhere." Dickens took a train from Boston to Lowell. "There is a great deal of jolting, a great deal of noise,... | |
 | Robert Hagelstein - 2005 - 168 pages
...car, there are a great many gentlemen who have ladies with them. There are also a great many ladies who have nobody with them: for any lady may travel...conductor or check-taker, or guard, or whatever he maybe, wears no uniform. He walls up and down the car, and in and out of it, as his fancy dictates;... | |
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