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Updated: October 22, 2025
"As a whole, I don't think it is any dirtier than most of the cities of Europe." "That is just my view. I find that all the guidebooks and all the works of travel insist upon inserting and indorsing Coleridge's lines on the subject." "What are the lines?" asked Paul. Dr. Winstock took his guide-book and read,
"She said she was waiting outside the house to catch a young lady with a snub-nose going away from my reception Mimi Winstock, of course." "Why Mimi Winstock?" "Well, hasn't she got a turned-up nose? And she didn't go away from my reception. She's sleeping here," Eve rejoined triumphantly. "And what else does the fat woman say?" "She says she won't say anything else except to Mimi Winstock."
Turning to his own car, he observed with a momentary astonishment that Carthew, the chauffeur, leaning a little nonchalantly through the open off-window of the vehicle, was engaged in conversation with Miss Winstock. The astonishment passed when he reflected that as these two had been in the enforced intimacy of an accident together they were necessarily on some kind of speaking terms.
Winstock and Paul waited among the chimes till they had played the hourly tune, and then continued their progress to the heights above. The custodian of the steeple said there were six hundred and sixteen steps from the bottom to the top, and a person does not care to make the journey more than once in his lifetime.
"How horrible!" exclaimed Grace. "Doubtless it is so to you; but to these people it is an act of affectionate remembrance," added the doctor; "as sacred and pious as any tribute we render to our loved and lost ones." Dr. Winstock continued to describe the various places through which the train passed, answering the many questions proposed by his interested auditors.
"This steamer does not seem to be much different from those we saw in England," said Paul, as he seated himself with Dr. Winstock where they could see the country on both sides of the river. "Not very different, but it is very unlike an American boat," replied the surgeon. "The steering apparatus is not like anything I ever saw before," added Paul.
A one-horse barouche was called, and a commissionaire a kind of guide or interpreter, who assists strangers in doing their business, or in seeing the sights of the city presented himself to be employed; but Dr. Winstock, who was familiar with the place, declined his services. "What was that man?" asked Paul, as the carriage drove off to the Rue des Soeurs Noires, where the Dominican Church of St.
Carrel Quire. If I might wait in the car till you came out.... You see I want to come to an understanding." "I don't know how long I shall be." "That doesn't matter, truly. I haven't got anything else in the world to do, as Mr. Carrel Quire is away." Mr. Prohack left Miss Winstock in the car. The establishment into which Mr. Prohack disappeared was that of his son's tailors.
Lowington for taking their money from them, not one of them refused to sign the orders; none of them dared to refuse. In due time Dr. Winstock had possession of all these little drafts, amounting in the aggregate to fifteen pounds, ten shillings, which would purchase quite a respectable piece of plate.
"At Brohl, which you see on the left, a peculiar kind of stone is found, which has the property of hardening under water, and is, therefore, in great demand for the manufacture of cement," said Dr. Winstock. "The ancients used it for coffins, because the stone absorbed the moisture from the bodies. These quarries were worked by the Romans, who had a road to Cologne on the left bank of the river."
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