He discovered from the timetable that the train was【56】in twenty minutes. Edger settled hi

mself into a comer, worried【57】when people saw him they would all wonder【58】a child like him was making a train Journey alone. He sighed with【59】when at last he heard the first sound of the train and then saw it roar in the train【60】was to take him out into the world. As he climbed【61】he noticed his ticket was second - class. He【62】always traveled first - class before and again he felt that everything had changed. There were differences he had never【63】before. His【64】companions were not【65】those he usually met. Some Italian workmen with hard hands and rough voices sat opposite,【66】spades and shovels, and looked out with dull, blank expressions. They had been working【67】money. Edgar thought, but he couldn't imagine【68】it could be. He became【69】for the first time that he was accustomed as a matter of【70】to an air of comfortable ease in his life, and there was so much he knew nothing about.

Edgar began to see many things from that narrow compartment with its windows to the【71】world. He【72】out of the window with new eyes. And it seemed to him that he saw everything in its proper light for the first time.

Houses fled by as【73】blown away by the wind, and this made him think about the people who lived in them. Were they【74】or poor, happy or miserable？ Did they【75】as he did, to know everything？

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A．up

B．due

C．owing

D．on