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The place is healthy, and, finally, the living is good and moderate in price. Travelling, too, is convenient and cheap: the tramways run quite round Palermo, and the carriages are better and cheaper than in any other city in Europe. Although travelling in Italy has its drawbacks, I have found more pleasure in moving amongst the Italians than the French.
The gangs were all safe except Gang Janki, Gang Mogul, and Gang Rahim, eighteen men, with perhaps ten basket-women who loaded the coal into the little iron carriages that ran on the tramways of the main galleries. These gangs were in the out-workings, three-quarters of a mile away, on the extreme fringe of the mine.
Quite close to it, however, was the town of Boulogne, with its well-provided market and shops, and at a distance of a few minutes the chemin-de-fer de ceinture, a line of tramways, one of omnibuses, and the steamboats not very far off. Clematis had a very small garden a recommendation to my husband but was still sufficiently isolated from the neighboring villas by their own grounds on each side.
At thirty-five he had directed the construction of the tramways of Cairo and of the Lower Egyptian Railways. He was now caught up in Leopold's great dream of Belgian expansion. The moment that the king obtained the concession for constructing the 1,200 mile railway from Pekin to Hankow he sent Jadot to China to take charge.
She was a really good woman of the world, heading a multitude; the same whom you are accustomed to hear exalted; lucky in having had a guided girlhood, a thick-curtained prudence; and in having stock in the moral funds, shares in the sentimental tramways.
A double track system of narrow tramways passed between the rows of tables, on its way from the storehouse to the different seed beds in all parts of the garden. On this tramway the little cars came from the storehouse to the tables, laden with supplies of pots and prepared soil; these they exchanged for trays of potted plants to be returned to the seed beds.
I said that under such circumstances intermarriages were generally the best means of improving friendship and terminating feuds between families. The Tehran street tramways continue to work, though the profit return is small.
It is a fine city, like all other American cities of its class. The streets are broad, the "blocks" are high, and cars on tramways run all day, and nearly all night as well. We had now before us only two points of interest before we should reach New York the Falls of Trenton, and West Point on the Hudson River.
Then I met him on the street, and he said that Persia was disintegrating, and took from me a dollar and a half. When I passed him next in the street he was very busy amalgamating Chinese tramways. It appeared that there was a ground floor in China, but I kept off it. Each time I saw Ellesworth he looked a little shabbier than the last.
He had surrendered all his favorite prejudices, and foresworn even the forms of criticism except for his pet amusement, the Senate, which was a tonic or stimulant necessary to healthy life; he had accepted uniformity and Pteraspis and ice age and tramways and telephones; and now just when he was ready to hang the crowning garland on the brow of a completed education science itself warned him to begin it again from the beginning.
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