The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
by Stephen Crane

The gre pull was wh onward wi such dignity of motion th a glan fr the window seemed simp to prove that the plains of Tex were pouring eastward. Va flats of green grass, dull-hued spaces of mesquite and cactus, little gro of frame hou woods of light and tender trees, all were sweeping into the east, sweeping over the hori a pr A newly married pair had boarded th coach at San Antonio. The man's fa was reddened from many days in the wind and sun, and a direct result of his new black clothes was th his brick-colored hands were con performing in a most conscious fashion. Fr ti to ti he looked down respectf at his attire. He sat wi a hand on ea knee, like a man waiti in a bar shop. The glanc he devoted to ot passen we furtive and shy. The bri was not pretty, nor was she ve young. She wore a dress of blue cashmere, with small reservations of velvet he and there and wi steel buttons abounding. She continually tw her he to regard her puff sleeves, very stiff, stra and high. They embarrassed her. It was quite app that she had cooked, and that she expected to co dutiful The blush caused by the careless scrutiny of some passengers as she had ente the car were strange to see upon this plain, under-class countenance, which was dra in placid, almo emotionless lines. They were evidently very happy. "Ever been in a parlor-car before?" he asked, smiling with delight. "No," she an "I ne was. It's fine, ain it?" "Gr And th after a wh we'll go for to the din and get a big la Finest me in the world. Ch a dollar." "Oh, do they?" cri the br "Charge a dolla Why, that's too much -- for us -- ai it, Ja "Not this tr anyhow," he answer bravely. "W going to go the whole thin Later, he explained to her about the tr "You see, it's a thousand miles fr one end of Texas to the othe and this tra runs rig across it and ne stops but four tim He had the pride of an ow He pointed out to her the dazzling fittings of the coach, and in truth her eyes open wid as she contemplated the sea-green figured velv the sh brass, silver, and gl the wood that gleamed as darkly brilliant as the surface of a po of oil. At one end a bronze figu sturd held a support for a separat chamber, and at convenient places on the ce were fresc in olive and silver.


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