A native stationmaster lost half our luggage for us-vowed he'd put it on board.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
The problem was not discussed; for the stationmaster entered, and said that Landolin's wife had come with the carriage, and that Landolin was expected by the evening train.
"Landolin"
Berthold Auerbach
Johann explained-he was a shabby man, grown grey and frayed, Ingeborg supposed, in service-that the previous stuff did not seem to have caught its train, and Herr Dremmel went off to make anxious inquiries of the stationmaster while Ingeborg stood smiling with an excessive friendliness at Johann to make up for her want of words, and wondering how her luggage would get on to a carriage already so much occupied by sacks.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim