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We spoke of the long period seeming to have elapsed since this war began. The buds were then swelling which held the leaves that are still green. It seems as old as Time himself. We cannot fail to observe how the mind brings together the scenes of to-day and those of the old Revolution. We shut up eighty years into each other like the joints of a pocket-telescope.
At first I thought they were canoes capsized, coming in keel uppermost; but the Arab declared they were sharks, and said, 'The bay is called Shark's Bay; and their coming in from the sea is an infallible sign of bad weather. A small pocket-telescope convinced me they were large blue sharks. I counted eight; their fins and sharp backs were out of the water.
Here we paused awhile to rest and admire the view; while Josephine, pleased as a child on a holiday, flung pebbles into the well, ate sugar-plums, and amused herself with my pocket-telescope. "Regardez!" she cried, "there is the dome of the Panthéon. I am sure it is the Panthéon and to the right, far away, I see a town! little white houses, and a steeple.
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