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Across the Plains
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Across the Plains
Robert Louis Stevenson
dren fell, and were picked up to be rewarded by a blow. One child, who had lost her parents, screamed steadily and with increasing shrillness, as though verging towards a fit; an official kept her by him, but no one else seemed so much as to remark her distress; and I am ashamed to say that I ran among the rest. I was so weary that I had twice to make a halt and set down my bundles in the hundred yards or so between the pier and the railway station, so that I was quite wet by the time that I got under cover. There was no waiting-room, no refreshment room; the cars were locked; and for at least another hour, or so it seemed, we had to camp upon the draughty, gaslit platform. I sat on my valise, too crushed to observe my neighbours; but as they were all cold, and wet, and weary, and driven stupidly crazy by the mismanagement to which we had been subjected, I believe they can have been no happier than myself. I bought half-a-dozen oranges from a boy, for oranges and nuts were the only refection to be had. As onl
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | August 23, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781975644857 |
Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 156 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 8 mm · 217 g |
Language | English |
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