After I had finished reading the paper I folded it up very carefully and put it into my pocket. At the same time the train began to move and started slowly onwards.
Chapter X
Mr. Sandor, the owner of the registry-office in Buda-Pesth, had told me in his last letter that he was going to meet me at the station, and asked me to carry a handkerchief in my hand. I had passed a perfectly sleepless night, and when we arrived in Buda-Pesth in the morning I felt quite stiff, and got out from the compartment rather clumsily, with my brown canvas trunk in one hand, and a handkerchief in the other. I looked up and down the platform, and soon observed an elderly gentleman who hurried up to me.
"Have you come from Langenau?"
"Yes," I said, and would have given a world to know what he thought of me.
"Do you want a taxi?" he asked, throwing a quick glance at my trunk.
All the money I possessed did not amount to more than sixpence, and I shook my head violently at his question.