“Oh! You are here, sir!” he said, springing on the step, and holding the window-frame by his elbow, as the carriage moved. “That person you pointed out to me is in a fit.”
“I infer from what he told me that he is subject to such attacks. He will come to, in the air, in a little while.”
He was took very bad to be sure, and was biting and knocking about him (the man said) furiously. Would the gentleman give him his card, as he had seen him first? The gentleman did so, with the explanation that he knew no more of the man attacked than that he was a man of a very respectable occupation, who had said he was out of health, as his appearance would of itself have indicated. The attendant received the card, watched his opportunity for sliding down, slid down, and so it ended.
Then, the train rattled among the housetops, and among the ragged sides of houses torn down to make way for it, and over the swarming streets, and under the fruitful earth, until it shot across the river: bursting over the quiet surface like a