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Inside the station I waited with the usual crowd ;
—with slouchy, red-trousered soldiers and baggy
Zouaves, old cures and one brand-new cure, young
ladies with high heels and old women in caps,
young men in straight - brimmed tall hats, and
gendarmes in full uniform. At the end of an hour
J-joined me. He looked very warm, his
clothes were well bespattered with mud, and the
lamp was sticking out of his coat pocket.—Though
the streets of Paris are no longer villainously
narrow, it is, I am sure, as difficult as ever to
turn a wheelbarrow in them, because of the reck-
lessness of the drivers and the vileness of the
pave. At all events it is no easy matter to wheel
a tricycle through the broadest boulevards. Still
J-
Inside the station I waited with the usual crowd ;
—with slouchy, red-trousered soldiers and baggy
Zouaves, old cures and one brand-new cure, young
ladies with high heels and old women in caps,
young men in straight - brimmed tall hats, and
gendarmes in full uniform. At the end of an hour
J-joined me. He looked very warm, his
clothes were well bespattered with mud, and the
lamp was sticking out of his coat pocket.—Though
the streets of Paris are no longer villainously
narrow, it is, I am sure, as difficult as ever to
turn a wheelbarrow in them, because of the reck-
lessness of the drivers and the vileness of the
pave. At all events it is no easy matter to wheel
a tricycle through the broadest boulevards. Still
J-