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lighted, and an Irish emigrant, I suppose a civil, good- 

 humoured fellow, in the, I should say, labouring or 

 farming class of life sat by me. He shared some sand 

 wiches I had, and offered me some whiskey, and 

 our seat of course commanded, and had a right to com 

 mand, the two windows next us, which were isolated 

 and confined to us by the presence of the stove. It was 

 nearly dark, and so hot, and the place so fetid, that we 

 agreed to open our windows they were close toge 

 ther. His would not open, but mine would, so I set it 

 up as high as it would go. I then fell asleep, feeling 

 weary as well as lonely there is nothing more 

 lonely than finding oneself in a crowd entirely strange 

 and how long I had thus dosed I know not, but I was 

 suddenly awakened by a dreamy conclusion that an inso- 

 solent man, with a displeasing flourish, had stepped 

 across my legs, and, without a word, or saying by your 

 leave, loudly closed my window. 



The phase of dreamy conclusion at which I thus at 

 once arrived was that, in my presence and person, all 

 England had been insulted ; so, springing briskly to my 

 feet, with as manifest a flourish I flung my window up 

 again, and then, resuming my seat, said with some 

 emphasis, "No man in this carriage shall close that 

 window my window without my permission." Per 

 haps I was wrong in this wide assertion, and it would 

 have been more prudent to have confined myself exclu 

 sively to the one aggressor, and I became aware of the 

 way in which my remark might be interpreted, by a 

 wild sort of warwhoop from all the remote or dark seats 

 of the carriage, but no whoop very near me. On this a 

 nasal voice from the other side the carriage from the 

 man who had closed my window, and who had no earthly 



