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It would be mortified to hear the talk of the excursionists, which is more about the quality of the tables and the beds, and the rapidity with which the "whole thing can be done," than about the beauty and the sublimity of nature.
The little party were soon assembled at home, and after cheerful "good-nights," Harry remarking that "he was awful tired, but there never had been a nicer picnic," the wearied excursionists soon lost all sense of fatigue in peaceful slumbers and happy dreams. A Mission. "And if this simple message Has now brought peace to you, Make known the old, old story, For others need it too."
The party slept at the Kronprinz Hôtel, and the next day, after a glance at the minster, which is ranked among the six finest Gothic cathedrals in Germany, and is now a Protestant church, the excursionists resumed their journey, arriving at Stuttgart in two hours and a half.
Then he remembered the boat-load of excursionists. It had vanished. He wondered whether he had imagined it. He turned, and saw the two workmen standing side by side under the projecting masses of the tall pink cliffs. He hesitated whether he should make one last attempt to save the man Hill. His physical excitement seemed to desert him suddenly, and leave him aimless and helpless.
What a wonderful thing it must have seemed in that time for a party of excursionists to have a ship all to themselves to go a-gipsying in from port to port of antiquity and romance!
There were all sorts and kinds, wonderful sportsmen with large checked suits, caps and field glasses slung over their shoulders a great many pretty girls generally in white. All had bags and baskets with bathing suits and luncheon, and in an instant they were swarming over the plage already crowded with the Paris excursionists.
The specially invited guests of the French Government upon this occasion numbered three thousand persons, and it seemed that for the Czar, his train, and these, the great show was got up. The thousands of outsiders, sightseers, and excursionists, brought to Rheims by cheap trains from all parts of France, were nowhere; in other words, invisible.
I hope the reader will see how this attitude distinguishes me from the selfish people who inhumanly exult in their remoteness from excursionists. It was at Rockaway Beach that I saw these fellow-beings whose mere multitude was too much for me.
Among these excursionists was our friend Captain David Roy not that he was addicted to running about in search of "fun," but, being unavoidably thrown idle at the time, and having a poetical turn of mind derived from his wife he thought he could not do better than take a run to the volcano and see how his son was getting along.
At that moment a bell rang. Captain Boyson rose. "That's the signal for closing. I think we ought to be moving up." They strolled slowly towards the house, watching the stream of excursionists pour out of the house and gardens, and wind down the hill; sounds of talk and laughter filled the air, and the western sun touched the spring hats and dresses.
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