The train having at last got fairly started, a big fat man, with a jolly broad face, who seemed to get happier and happier the closer the squeeze became, said in a wheezy voice—
“I move that we have a Free-and-Easy.”
“Move! that’s a good one,” said a voice from a corner. “Proposing to move is all very well, but how will you get it done in a squash like this?”
“Well,” said the jolly man, “there’s nothing like trying.”
“No; except trying circumstances, like ours just now.”
“We must have a chairman,” said the jolly gentleman.
“Here’s what you want,” said Norval; “I saw him getting in.”
PERE LA CHAISE.
Everybody looked towards Norval, but in the crowd they could see nothing but a broad, flat, smiling face.