[What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookWhat I Remember, Volume 2 CHAPTER XVI 32/46
TROLLOPE,--The kindness which induces you to shelter travellers will make you willing to hear something of their subsequent fate.
And I am the more inclined to send you some news of ourselves because I have nothing dismal to tell.
We bore our long journey better than we dared to expect, for the night was made short by sleep in our large coupe, and during the day we had no more than one headache between us.
Mr.Lewes really looks better, and has lost his twinges. And though pleasure-seekers are notoriously the most aggrieved and howling inhabitants of the universe, we can allege nothing against our lot here but the persistent coldness of the wind, which is in dangerously sudden contrast with the warmth of the sunshine whenever one gets on the wrong side of a wall.
This prevents us from undertaking any carriage expeditions, which is rather unfortunate, because such expeditions are among the chief charms of Naples.
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