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Even the Boulevard de Magenta, with its prosaic tram-lines, its large, cheap shops, its common brasseries and spanning railway bridge, seemed a place of promise; and as they passed on, ever mounting toward Montmartre, his brain quickened to new joy, new curiosity in every flaunting advertisement, every cobble-stone in the long steep way of the Boulevard Barbés, the rue de la Nature, and the rue de Clignancourt, until at length they emerged into the rue André de Sarte that narrow street, quaint indeed in its dark old houses and its small, mysterious wine shops that savor of Italy or Spain.
"Can I conceive?" said Julius. "And is that electricity too?" "I hope to find it is." "Oh, how slow!" exclaimed Julius, "oh, how slow you professional scientific men become! You begin to run on tram-lines, and you can't get off them! Why fix yourself to call this principle you're seeking for 'electricity'? It will probably restrict your inquiry, and hamper you in several ways.
Before General Lyautey came to Morocco Rabat had been subjected to the indignity of European "improvements," and one must traverse boulevards scored with tram-lines, and pass between hotel-terraces and cafés and cinema-palaces, to reach the surviving nucleus of the once beautiful native town. Then, at the turn of a commonplace street, one comes upon it suddenly.
We crossed quite a number of thoroughfares with tram-lines I had no idea there were so many and it was a revelation to me to find how numerous the railway arches were in this part of London and how continually the nature of the road-metal varied. It was by no means a dull journey this time.
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