A wide and splendid collection of signal lamps flowed toward the engine.
With delicacy and care the train clanked over some switches, passes the
signals, and then there shone a great blaze of arc-lamps, defining the
wide sweep of the station roof. Smoothly, proudly, with all that vast
dignity which had surrounded its exit from London, the express moved
along its platform. It was the entrance into a gorgeous drawing-room of
a man that was sure of everything.
The porters and the people crowded forward. In their minds there may
have floated dim images of the traditional music-halls, the bobbies, the
'buses, the 'Arrys and 'Arriets, the swells of London.
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