Both animals were impatient to be gone, and when given the head, started off madly.

This exciting pace roused the student from his lethargy, and when the steeds had settled down to a less frenzied gait, he asked what was his guide's intention.
"It is plain.

You must be put across the border into France." "France!" it seemed to him, since the revelation of his birth in that country, that the name had a charm unknown heretofore.

Yes, he ought to make a pilgrimage into that sunny land where his father had been a gem in its artistic crown.
"It is your native country and you will be safer there than in Italy or Austria.

Our next stage will be the little railway station to which you may see that long double silver serpent, the metal tracks, stretching across the plain.".