[The March Family Trilogy by William Dean Howells]@TWC D-Link bookThe March Family Trilogy PART of the burlesque troupe rode down in the omnibus to the Grand Trunk 1/48
Ferry with them, and were good-natured to the last, having shaken hands all round with the waiters, chambermaids, and porters of the hotel.
The young fellow with the bad amiable face came in a calash, and refused to overpay the driver with a gay decision that made him Basil's envy till he saw his tribulation in getting the troupe's luggage checked.
There were forty pieces, and it always remained a mystery, considering the small amount of clothing necessary to those people on the stage, what could have filled their trunks.
The young man and the two English blondes of American birth found places in the same car with our tourists, and enlivened the journey with their frolics.
When the young man pretended to fall asleep, they wrapped his golden curly head in a shawl, and vexed him with many thumps and thrusts, till he bought a brief truce with a handful of almonds; and the ladies having no other way to eat them, one of them saucily snatched off her shoe, and cracked them hammerwise with the heel.
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