[Following the Equator Part 5 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookFollowing the Equator Part 5 CHAPTER XLVIII 7/21
After a bit be said:-- "Well!" And that was all. But that was enough.
It was easy to understand.
It meant: "This is extraordinary.
This is high-handed.
I haven't had an experience like this before." He sat down on his baggage, and for twenty minutes we watched him through our eyelashes, rocking and swaying there to the motion of the train. Then we came to a station, and he got up and went out, muttering: "I must find a lower berth, or wait over." His servant came presently and carried away his things. Mr.Smythe's sore place was healed, his hunger for revenge was satisfied. But he couldn't sleep, and neither could I; for this was a venerable old. car, and nothing about it was taut.
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