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The Innocents Abroad
Part 2 of 6

CHAPTER XIII
11/19

We will bear some of the burden and heat of the day ourselves.

We will endeavor to do such 'supposing' as is really necessary to be done.

Drive on." So spake the doctor.
Within fifteen minutes the carriage halted again, and before another silk store.

The doctor said: "Ah, the palace of the Louvre--beautiful, beautiful edifice! Does the Emperor Napoleon live here now, Ferguson ?" "Ah, Doctor! You do jest; zis is not ze palace; we come there directly.
But since we pass right by zis store, where is such beautiful silk--" "Ah! I see, I see.

I meant to have told you that we did not wish to purchase any silks to-day, but in my absent-mindedness I forgot it.


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