The Parlour Car

The Parlour Car Howells, William Dean Derived Text Format to access the structural information conversion Mathias Göbel TextGrid CC-BY-4.0 Lizenzvertrag William Dean Howells, 1837 – 1920 The Parlour Car [in, A Counterfeit Presentment and The Parlour Car by William D. Howells. Author's Edition] Edinburgh David Douglas 228 p. Conductor Miss Lucy Galbraith Porter Mr. Allen Richards Farce Prose data extraction from source 1884 Scene : A Parlour Car on the New York Central Railroad. It is late afternoon in the early autumn, with a cloudy sunset threatening rain. The car is unoccupied save by a gentleman, who sits fronting one of the windows, with his feet in another chair; a newspaper lies across his lap; his hat is drawn down over his eyes, and he is apparently asleep. The rear door of the car opens, and the conductor enters with a young lady, heavily veiled, the porter coming after with her wraps and travelling-bags. The lady's air is of mingled anxiety and desperation, with a certain fierceness of movement. She casts a careless glance over the empty chairs . Conductor . —

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The gentleman stirs in his chair, lifts his head, listens, takes his feet down from the other seat, rises abruptly, and comes to Miss Galbraith's side. Mr. Allen Richards . —

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Miss G. rises and goes to the large mirror to wipe away her tears. She glances at Mr. Richards, who does not move. She sits down in a seat nearer him than the chair she has left. After some faint murmurs and hesitations, she asks,

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Miss G. returns to her former place with a wounded air, and for a moment neither speaks. Finally she asks very meekly,

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Porter , entering and gathering up Miss Galbraith's things. —

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Miss G. , rising and adjusting her dress, and then looking about the car, while she passes her hand through her lover's arm. —

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