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When did you come?" "I arrived this morning. It was hot travelling, and I shared my compartment in the wagon-lit with a German gentleman very far advanced in several unaesthetic ailments. Basta! Thank Heaven for this. Calm and delicious!" His large, piercing eyes were fixed upon Vere. "And about twelve," he added, "or twelve-and-a-half." "Yes, you.
It is about as quick, and one gets a wagon-lit from Metz. I looked up the train the other day, and find it leaves Conflans at a little after six." "Surely you will remain and say au revoir to Paul? He'll be so disappointed!" she cried in dismay. "My dear, you will make excuses for us. I must really go, and so must Enid. She had a letter from Mrs.
Even in Modena, on the boundary-line of Italy, when I was returning to France, and sharing a lonely Christmas with the conductor of the wagon-lit, we were held up by train-robbers, who took our money and then pinned medals on us. Until we reached Paris we did not know why. It was only later we learned that in the two days' campaign the poilus was benefited to the sum of many millions of francs.
He leant back in a corner of the cab with drooping shoulders as though utterly world-weary. At the station his wife and father-in-law were looking impatiently for his arrival. They stood at the door of their wagon-lit in the Côte d'Azur Rapide, searching the crowded platform for him. It was now ten to eight, and the express was timed to pull out of the Gare de Lyon at eight o'clock sharp.
And look at the time it saves; eleven days to Gib, six to Port Said, and fifteen to Colombo there you are, only half-way around, and you're already sixteen days behind the man in the wagon-lit." "But nobody wants to go to Vladivostok," said Miss Cameron, "or anywhere else in a wagon-lit. But with a yacht you can explore out-of-the-way places, and you meet new and interesting people.
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