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His learned colleagues said he would finally get to Chroussa, when the road was finished; but at this time that is, in 1850 the Conservative party in the town regarded the expense as useless and too heavy for the resources of the commune, and so the work had been stopped for some months. The road was completed as far as the stony valley of Mana, and here the professor's daily walk ended.
He used to take this walk along the Vaporia, but since they had begun to build a carriage road to Chroussa at the other end of the island he bent his steps in that direction, instead of pacing four times up and down the only promenade in Syra. He followed the road-building with great interest, and went farther and farther from week to week.
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