'Lady back there told me to collect her fare from you,' repeated the
conductor. 'Said you would pay.'
The general at once stepped out, while Phileas Fogg calmly followed him, and they proceeded together to the
conductor.
The
conductor helped her off the car and then the engineer started his train again, so that it puffed and groaned and moved slowly away up the track.
I knew this must be the immigrant family the
conductor had told us about.
You are in the hands of officials who zealously study your welfare and your interest, instead of turning their talents to the invention of new methods of discommoding and snubbing you, as is very often the main employment of that exceedingly self-satisfied monarch, the railroad
conductor of America.
"It is a man," gabbled my
conductor, "a man, a man, a five-man, like me."
"Just at the conventional moment, when all hope had fled, and the
conductor was holding out his box to the passenger next to me, I suddenly remembered where I had put that wretched coin of the realm.
The wind, which had been freshening, now sang in louder tones as it hummed through the rigging and the funnel stays and bowled over the receiving
conductors of the wireless.
I was complaining of a small fit of the colic, upon which my
conductor led me into a room where a great physician resided, who was famous for curing that disease, by contrary operations from the same instrument.
The merry top-riders had been assigned to their seats by the gentlemanly
conductor. The sidewalk was blockaded with sightseers who had gathered to stare at sightseers, justifying the natural law that every creature on earth is preyed upon by some other creature.
He tried not to let his attention be distracted, and not to spoil his impression by looking at the
conductor in a white tie, waving his arms, which always disturbed his enjoyment of music so much, or the ladies in bonnets, with strings carefully tied over their ears, and all these people either thinking of nothing at all or thinking of all sorts of things except the music.
His
conductors tried to punish the audacity of the boys, but there was no possibility of doing so, for they hid themselves among the hundreds of others that were following them.
