"Mail train" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ladies are now staying at the same hotel. I have thus far been detained in London by family affairs. But, unless I hear of a change for the better before evening, I follow Lady Loring to Paris by the mail train." ...
— The Black Robe • Wilkie Collins
... suddenly lit on a black case close to his feet, with the three letters MAY, and the next moment a huge chest appeared out of the darkness, bearing the same letters, and lifted on a truck by the joint strength of a green porter, and a pair of broad blue shoulders. Too ill to come on—telegraph, mail train—rushed through the poor Doctor's brain as he stepped forward as if to interrogate the chest. The blue shoulders turned, a ruddy sun-burnt face lighted up, and the inarticulate exclamation on either side was of the most intense ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... "Paddington, 10.20 a.m.—Mail train just started. It contains three thieves, named Sparrow, Burrell, and Spurgeon, in the first compartment ...
— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various
... answered. "I am going to the Foreign Office about my passport—I have some interest there: they can give me letters; they can advise and assist me. I leave to-night by the mail train ...
— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins
... heard Bow Church bells all their lives. We left Liverpool for Birmingham, where we passed an afternoon and evening in the family of a manufacturer very pleasantly, and at ten o'clock took the express mail train for London. We are staying at a hotel called the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. We have our breakfast in the coffee-room, and then dine as it suits our convenience as to place and hour. We spent one day in riding about the city, ...
— Young Americans Abroad - Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, - Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland • Various
... country, of which Miss Hackett had given the name, so that they might seem to have been spending the evening with her. Thence it was but a step to the station of a different railway from that which went through Silverton, and they would go by the mail train to London, where Ludmilla could be deposited at Mrs. Grinstead's house at Brompton, where Martha could provide her with an outfit, while Gerald saw the editor of the 'Censor', got some money from the bank, ...
— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge
... your beau is off," she announced cheerfully. "You won't be bothered with him again. He is leaving on the mail train for ...
— Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... we went to him. It was full noon when the news came, and nightfall saw us dashing through the murk of a wild mid-December night towards Dover pier, feeling that only the express speed of the mail train was quick enough for us to ...
— A Versailles Christmas-Tide • Mary Stuart Boyd
... caught you at home. I'm come to town about Lord St. Erme's business—go back by the mail train. Are you dining at home? Can you give ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge |
