The future was a thing which concerned the Canadian line.

He wanted to reach that.

As for the rest he surveyed his actions for the evening, and counted them parts of a great mistake.
"Still," he said, "what could I have done ?" Then he would decide to make the best of it, and would begin to do so by starting the whole inquiry over again.

It was a fruitless, harassing round, and left him in a queer mood to deal with the proposition he had in the presence of Carrie.
The train clacked through the yards along the lake front, and ran rather slowly to Twenty-fourth Street.

Brakes and signals were visible without.
The engine gave short calls with its whistle, and frequently the bell rang.