Strona:Jerome K. Jerome - Trzej ludzie w jednej łodzi.djvu/56

should be harried about in this way, and gathered up a bag and eight parcels and went.
 The remaining four passengers sat on for a while, until a solemn-looking man in the corner, who, from his dress and general appearance, seemed to belong to the undertaker class, said it put him in mind of dead baby; and the other three passengers tried to get out of the door at the same time, and hurt themselves.
 I smiled at the black gentleman, and said I thought we were going to have the carriage to ourselves; and he laughed pleasantly, and said that some people made such a fuss over a little thing.
 But even he grew strangely depressed after we had started, and so, when we reached Crewe, I asked him to come and have a drink. He accepted, and we forced our way into the buffet, where we yelled, and stamped, and waved our umbrellas for a quarter of an hour; and then a young lady came, and asked us if we wanted anything.
 „What‘s yours?“ I said, turning to my friend.
 „I‘ll have half-a-crown‘s worth of brandy, neat, if you please, miss“, he responded.
 And he went off quietly after he had drunk it and got into another carriage, which I thought mean.
 From Crewe I had the compartment to myself, though the train was crowded. As we drew up at the different stations, the people, seeing my empty carriage, would rush for it. „Here y‘