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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61635#0139
IN THE FOREST.
THE waiter having overcharged us for the
groseille, we thought it only fair he should
give us information for nothing. He told us the
forest was just around the corner, which we could
see for ourselves, and he directed us on our way
with such care that we forgot his directions the
next minute.
The forest is still “ horrid and solitary,” as
Evelyn has it, just as when he rode through it
and between its “ hideous rocks.” We do not
know to this day in what part we were, nor what
roads we followed. We made no effort to go out
of our direct course in search of the placarded
places which it is the tourist’s duty to visit.—We
did think something of looking for the rock with
the plaques set up on it, in memory of Millet and
Rousseau. In telling us how to find it the waiter’s
words had been many and explicit. But when we
tried to recall them we could not; nor were we
more successful in our endeavours to find the rock
for
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THE waiter having overcharged us for the
groseille, we thought it only fair he should
give us information for nothing. He told us the
forest was just around the corner, which we could
see for ourselves, and he directed us on our way
with such care that we forgot his directions the
next minute.
The forest is still “ horrid and solitary,” as
Evelyn has it, just as when he rode through it
and between its “ hideous rocks.” We do not
know to this day in what part we were, nor what
roads we followed. We made no effort to go out
of our direct course in search of the placarded
places which it is the tourist’s duty to visit.—We
did think something of looking for the rock with
the plaques set up on it, in memory of Millet and
Rousseau. In telling us how to find it the waiter’s
words had been many and explicit. But when we
tried to recall them we could not; nor were we
more successful in our endeavours to find the rock
for
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