John Roderigo Dos Passos

Name: Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip
Author: John Roderigo Dos Passos

Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip (1925)

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“Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip”, published in 1925, is a work by John Roderigo Dos Passos. It explores elements such as Ed Thatcher, Susie and ferry.

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John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip (1925)

“ Gates fold upwards, feet step out across the crack, men and women press through the manuresmelling wooden tunnel of the ferry-house, crushed and jostling like apples fed down a chute into a press.
THE nurse, holding the basket at arm's length as if it were a bedpan, opened the door to a big dry hot room with greenish distempered walls where in the air tinctured with smells of alcohol and iodoform hung writhing a faint sourish squalling from other baskets along the wall. ”

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John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip (1925)

“ You're the happy father of a bouncing baby girl."
"You see it's our first and Susie's so delicate," he stammered with blinking eyes.
"Oh yes, I understand, naturally you worried. . . . You can go in and talk to her when she wakes up. The baby was born two hours ago. Be sure not to tire her."
Ed Thatcher was a little man with two blond wisps of mustache and washedout gray eyes. He seized the nurse's hand and shook it showing all his uneven yellow teeth in a smile. ”

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John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip (1925)

“ They shook hands across the table between the bottles.
"A certified accountant makes big money," said Mr. Zucher.
"Big money's what I'll have to have, for my little girl."
"Kids, they eat money," continued Mr. Zucher, in a deep voice.
"Wont you let me set you up to a bottle?" said Thatcher, figuring up how much he had in his pocket. Poor Susie wouldn't like me to be drinking in a saloon like this. But just this once, and I'm learning, learning about fatherhood.
"The more the merrier," said Mr. Zucher. ". . . But kids, they eat money. . . . Dont do nutten but eat and vear out clothes. ”

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John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip (1925)

“ He tried to tuck the covers about her.
"Too bad," said the nurse, calmly, picking up the basket. "I'll have to give her a sedative."
Susie sat up stiff in bed. "Take it away," she yelled and fell back in hysterics, letting out continuous frail moaning shrieks.
"O my God!" cried Ed Thatcher, clasping his hands.
"You'd better go away for this evening, Mr. Thatcher. . . . She'll quiet down, once you've gone. . . . I'll put the roses in water." ”

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John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip (1925)

“ The chubby man turned on him, delight bubbling through his thick voice. "Congradulade me, congradulade me; mein vife has giben birth to a poy."
Thatcher shook a fat little hand. "Mine's a girl," he admitted, sheepishly.
"It is fif years yet and every year a girl, and now dink of it, a poy."
"Yes," said Ed Thatcher as they stepped out on the pavement, "it's a great moment." ”

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John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip (1925)

“ It's looks that count in this city."
"I kin work all right. I'm a good worker," growled Bud with his mouth full.
"I'm tellin yez, that's all," said the redhaired man and turned back to his stove.
When Ed Thatcher climbed the marble steps of the wide hospital entry he was trembling. The smell of drugs caught at his throat. A woman with a starched face was looking at him over the top of a desk. He tried to steady his voice.
"Can you tell me how Mrs. Thatcher is?"
"Yes, you can go up."
"But please, miss, is everything all right?"
"The nurse on the floor will know anything about the case. ”

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John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip (1925)

“ A nurse was hovering near the end of the bed.
"Couldn't you let us see the baby, miss?"
The nurse nodded. She was a lanternjawed grayfaced woman with tight lips.
"I hate her," whispered Susie. "She gives me the fidgets that woman does; she's nothing but a mean old maid."
"Never mind dear, it's just for a day or two." Susie closed her eyes.
"Do you still want to call her Ellen?"
The nurse brought back a basket and set it on the bed beside Susie.
"Oh isn't she wonderful!" said Ed. "Look she's breathing. . . . And they've oiled her." He helped his wife to raise herself on her elbow ”

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John Roderigo Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer — Ferryslip (1925)

“ I want to get to the center of things."
"Walk east a block and turn down Broadway and you'll find the center of things if you walk far enough."
"Thank you sir. I'll do that."
The violinist was going through the crowd with his hat held out, the wind ruffling the wisps of gray hair on his shabby bald head. Bud found the face tilted up at him, the crushed eyes like two black pins looking into his. "Nothin," he said gruffly and turned away to look at the expanse of river bright as knifeblades. The plank walls of the slip closed in, cracked as the ferry lurched against them ”

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