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A Voyage of Consolation

CHAPTER VIII
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There came a chill through the darkness that struck to one's very marrow, and we all rose with one accord and groped about for more rugs.

When broad daylight came it was Savoy, and we realised what we had been through.

The Senator was inclined to deplore missing the realisation of the Mont Cenis, and it was only when momma said it was a pity he hadn't taken a train that would have brought us through in the daytime and enabled him to examine it, that he ceased to express regret.

My parents are often vehicles of philosophy for each other.
Besides, in the course of the morning the Senator acknowledged that he got more tunnels than he had any idea he had paid for.

They came with a precipitancy that interfered immensely with any connected idea of the scenery, though momma, in my interest, did her best to form one.


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