[A Voyage of Consolation by Sara Jeannette Duncan]@TWC D-Link bookA Voyage of Consolation CHAPTER IX 6/17
She's been telling us about it ever since. But we hope it will pass off." Mrs.Portheris expanded into that inevitable British story of the officer who reported of certain tribes that they had no manners and their customs were abominable, and I, at a mute invitation from Dicky, stepped aside to get the angle of the Tower from a better point of view. Mr.Dod was depressed, so much so that he came to the point at once.
"I hope you had a good time in Genoa," he said.
"We should have been there now, only I knew we should never catch up to you if we didn't skip something.
So I heard of a case of cholera there, and didn't mention that it was last year.
Quite enough for Her Ex.
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