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Rh There is something even thrilling and extraordinary in it. These two imaginative ones felt something very like a sensation of awe when they had scrambled up the steps, entered and found themselves standing at the end of the car looking down the aisle to find out if there was anywhere a vacant seat where they might stow themselves without disturbing anybody. They were well-mannered children, both by nature and as a result of their training in the modest and restricted little household they had spent their first years in. They had learned there, though quite unconsciously, to respect other people's rights as well as their own, so they looked down the aisle to discover where their place in it chanced to be, if they were so lucky as to possess a place. In the seat nearest them an old gentleman nodded with his arms folded and his head dropping forward on his chest. He had a black skull-cap on, and had his back against the side of the window and his legs up on the seat, so there was no room for even one of them there. Everybody was making himself or herself as comfortable as possible under the circumstances, and this needed space. One very big man had turned down the seat next his own and filled it with his feet and his valise, his hat and a very large and long overcoat. He was snoring loudly.