The Argosy, Vol. 23
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Excerpt from The Argosy, Vol. 23: January to June, 1877 It was a cold, bright February morning in Paris, and the bustle of departure by the mail-train for Calais was at its height at the Station du Nord. At the time of which we speak - some years ago - this was no light matter to encounter. If ever there was a place in which the nervous, inexperienced passenger would be apt to look longingly back to the comparative comfort of railways at home, it was this same Station du Nord in those days. The penning up at first, the rush afterwards, the worry with luggage, the extortion of porters, might all have been a joke to those with strength, and spirits, and money; but were real trials to those without. On the morning in question there was a young English passenger, who, though deficient neither in courage nor in hopefulness, felt, for a few moments, with almost bitter despair, her inability to hold her own without a protector in that impatient, struggling crowd. A thin, pale girl, plainly and insufficiently clad, and, to judge by the sharpness of her features, no less insufficiently fed, she might have hoped, at least, to escape observation by insignificance; and it was no small addition to her troubles to find herself the subject of insolent comment audibly uttered by one young commis to another, as they manoeuvred to keep near her that they might divert themselves at her expense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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