[Ticket No. """"9672"""" by Jules Verne]@TWC D-Link bookTicket No. """"9672"""" CHAPTER XVIII 2/10
Traveling-carriages, kariols by the dozen, canned goods, baskets of wine, preserves of every kind, clothing and utensils for tourists, and guides to conduct them to the remotest villages of Finmark, Lapland, or even to the North Pole.
Nor is this all.
M.Benett likewise offers to lovers of natural history specimens of the different stones and metals found in the earth, as well as of the birds, insects, and reptiles of Norway. It is well, too, to know that one can nowhere find a more complete assortment of the jewelry and bric-a-brac of the country than in his show-cases. This gentleman is consequently the good angel of all tourists desirous of exploring the Scandinavian peninsula, and a man Christiania could scarcely do without. "By the way, you found the carriage you had ordered waiting for you at Tinoset, did you not, professor ?" he asked. "Yes.
Having ordered it through you, Monsieur Benett, I felt sure that it would, be there at the appointed time." "You are a sad flatterer, I fear, Monsieur Hogg.
But I judged from your letter that there were to be three of you in the party." "There were three of us, as I told you." "And the others ?" "They arrived here safe and sound last evening, and are now waiting for me at the Hotel du Nord, where I am soon to join them." "And these persons are-- ?" "Precisely, Monsieur Benett, precisely; but I must beg you to say nothing about it.
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