floaters

Updated: August 16, 2026

But I did not notice that Isabel devoted herself at all seriously to looking out of the window. "He tells me," said Miss Callis, "that you are to give him his answer at Cologne." "Does he, indeed?" said I. We were floating down the Rhine in the society of our friends, two hundred and fifty other floaters, and a string band. We had left the battlements of Bingen, and the Mouse Tower was in sight.

Sara Jeannette Duncan - A Voyage of Consolation: (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An: American girl in London')