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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
277
It
is
night-time,
the
reader
will
remember,
and
the
interior
looks
warm
and
cheerful
with
its
row
of
bright-burning
moderator
lamps,
and,
in
this
respect,
contrasts
strongly
and
pleasantly,
as
far
as
we
are
concerned,
with
the
dimly-lighted
station,
through
which
the
cold
night
air
is
rushing.
The
reader
who
is
following
us
in
this
description
must
abstain
from
imagining
anything
like
luxury
in
the
internal
fittings.
Everything
here
is
requisite
for
accomplishing
the
work
in
hand,
but
there
is
no
provision
for
any
kind
of
indulgence;
and
spacious
as
the
place
seems
at
a
first
glance,
there
is
not
to
be
found,
when
we
come
to
look
narrowly,
a
single
foot
of
spare
room.
Along
the
whole
length
of
one
side
of
the
carriage,
and
encroaching
materially
upon
its
width,
a
number
of
tiers
of
boxes--the
"holes"
of
our
ancient
authority--are
arranged
for
the
sorting
processes;
the
smaller
ones
for
the
letters,
and
the
larger
ones
in
the
centre
of
the
office--more
like
shelves,
many
of
them
being
movable--for
the
newspapers
and
all
that
vast
variety
of
articles
forwarded
according
to
the
rules
of
book-post.
Every
available
inch
of
space
on
the
other
side
of
the
office
is
covered
with
upright
pegs,
in
recesses
sunk
in
the
carriage-sides,
upon
which
are
hung
the
bags--now
made
of
canvas,
with
the
names
of
towns
conspicuously
painted
upon
them--to
be
used
in
the
course
of
the
journey.
These
recesses,
as
well
as
the
two
ends
of
the
office,
are
well
padded
over,
to
secure
additional
safety
to
the
officers
in
the
event
of
any
accident.[157]
Under
the
desks
or
counters,
which
run
from
one
end
of
the
carriage
to
the
other,
bags
are
packed,
to
be
given
out
as
the
train
arrives
at
the
respective
stations.
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