And then came the chill days of autumn and the prospect7 of another dreadful winter, with the price of billets three per cent lower[31] yet. Mr. Robert van Rensselaer's palatial8 steam yacht, the Comet, was about to start on a trip down the coast of Florida, when he was called to Hungerville by an urgent telegram, saying that the crisis was at hand.
And truly there was some bad feeling—even the president could see that; when one walked about the streets of Hungerville, he saw pale, sickly children, bent9 and haggard women, and men glaring at him from under lowering brows. He saw houses out of repair, and starving people being turned away from them. He saw angry crowds harangued10 by wild-eyed men, in Polish and other strange tongues.
These things the president noticed as his carriage whirled through the streets, but they did not daunt11 him, and after a long and angry conference the delegates of the unions came back to report that all concessions12 had been refused. The next morning men read in the papers that the unions had demanded a final conference, and that if nothing was granted, then there would be a strike, and a war to the end.

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长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的过去式和过去分词 ); 艰难缓慢地移动,跋涉 | |
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