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Nor should I have lived through the dreadful moment when that British officer at Gibraltar held up those papers, neatly folded and sealed and bound with bright, inappropriately cheerful red tape, and with an icy eye demanded an explanation beyond human power to afford. All this would have been spared me. But, on the other hand, I could not now look back to that dinner on the Turin-Paris rapide.
The Turin-Paris express the most direct, the Italians call it was too popular by half to suit the taste of morose beings who wished for solitude. With great trouble and pains I had ferreted out a single vacant compartment; but as four o'clock sounded and the whistle blew for departure, a belated traveler joined me worse still, an acquaintance who could not be quite ignored.
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