The Railway Children Quotes
"They were not railway children to begin with."
"She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons."
"Mothers never have favourites, but if their mother had had a favourite, it might have been Roberta."
"The others said he cried over it—but of course boys of ten do not cry, however terrible the tragedies may be which darken their lot."
"I hate gruel—I hate barley water—I hate bread and milk. I want to get up and have something real to eat."
Hope? Rather! Tons of it," said Father, cheerfully; "but it’ll want something besides hope—a bit of brazing say, or some solder, and a new valve.
You’ll come to a bad end," she said furiously, "you nasty little limb, you! If you don’t mend your ways, you’ll go where your precious Father’s gone, so I tell you straight!
"It’s more like a dripping-pan full of black cabbages," said Peter.
"I never thought we should ever get as near to a train as this. It’s the most ripping sport!"
"The Romans were dead nuts on aqueducts. It’s a splendid piece of engineering."
You’re a little lady, every inch," said Bill, relenting suddenly and completely. "We’ll see you gets home safe.
That’s what Father said," Bobbie explained eagerly. "What’s that for?
"This ’ere’s the automatic brake," Bill went on, flattered by her enthusiasm.
"You just move this ’ere little handle—do it with one finger, you can—and the train jolly soon stops."
"An’ about this engine—Jim—ain’t you got ne’er a pal as can use a soldering iron? Seems to me that’s about all the little bounder wants doing to it."
It’s like being in a besieged castle," Phyllis said; "look at the arrows of the foe striking against the battlements!
"It’s much more like a great garden-squirt," said Peter.
I don’t know what it is," said Peter, "but it isn’t French. I know that.
"Try him with French if you know so much about it," said the farmer-man.
"Parlay voo Frongsay?" began Peter, boldly.
"I hope you won’t find you’re taking home a frozen viper," said the Station Master, doubtfully.
"Now, then—move along there. I’ll attend to this, if you please."
"It’s my belief he’s nothing worse than a natural," said a farmerish-looking person.
"It’s all right. He’s a Russian, and he’s lost his ticket."
He’s Russian," cried Peter, "or else he’s like ‘the man who was’—in Kipling, you know.
"You lie low till she’s through, and then we’ll go up along to my place, and see if there’s any of them strawberries ripe what I told you about."
"It was them put ’is back up calling out about who ate the puppy-pie under Marlow bridge."
"And a finer you never did see, Miss, though I says it."
"There's no end to this tunnel," said Phyllis.
"You’re a jolly good little nurse," said Jim.
"Look here," she said, "this is most awful."
"Oh, look up! Speak to me! For my sake, speak!"
"Everyone ought to be taught these scientific facts. So long!"
"I say, I must say," he said, "that’s it’s a very heartless game."
"I give you my sacred honour-word we’ll never tell anyone."
"I don’t care if you never untie me," said Peter.
"Don’t you think it’s rather nice to think that we’re in a book that God’s writing?"
"I am so awfully glad it is you," said Phyllis; "when you think of the tons of old gentlemen there are in the world—it might have been almost anyone."
"Things do happen in real life that are rather like books, sometimes."
"Take care of your mother, my dears," said the old gentleman. "She’s a woman in a million."
"God bless her," said the old gentleman, taking both Mother’s hands, "God bless her! Ay, and she shall be blessed."
"Oh! my Daddy, my Daddy!" That scream went like a knife into the heart of everyone in the train.
"I knew something wonderful was going to happen," said Bobbie, as they went up the road, "but I didn’t think it was going to be this. Oh, my Daddy, my Daddy!"
"I always knew it wasn’t," said Bobbie. "Me and Mother and our old gentleman."
"I think we will not open the door or follow him. I think that just now we are not wanted there. I think it will be best for us to go quickly and quietly away."