It was hard, he thought, to be within sight of safety and almost of Home, and to be baulked by the want of a few wretched shillings and by the pettifogging mistrustfulness of paid officials.

• 他心想，眼看就要到手的安全和归家，想不到只因为缺少几个臭钱，因为车站办事员吹毛求疵，故意刁难。