Pennell, Joseph; Pennell, Joseph: Our sentimental journey through France and Italy (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893)

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“ C'est complet, Monsieurscreamed a little man,
in a passion.
“ Certainly, Monsieur” said J-——, as he fastened
the door with a click behind him.
“ I tell you it’s full,” repeated the little man, in
his rage dancing to the window and calling the
conductor.
—It was too late. All he could do was to
return to his seat and glower at J-, who calmly
sat in the window.-
“ We must not make the war,” said a good cure
next to him, patting him gently on the shoulder.
-—He restrained his anger with a comforting
drink of brandy. Monsieur le Cure fell to saying
his beads, covering his mouth with his wide-
brimmed hat, while all the other passengers
laughed and nudged each other. A man in the
corner, carrying a genuine American carpet-bag,
drank something from a gingerbeer bottle, and
asked us in good American what we knew of the
hotels in Paris.
At the next station J - - got out, and the man
from the country of beautiful roads, who had been
sitting in the adjoining compartment, met him at
the door.——-
“ I render to you my place, Monsieur,” said he.
—And so in perfect peace we made all possible
speed