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A Tramp Abroad

CHAPTER XXVII
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Hear and obey: -- You will immediately remove every trace of your offensive work from the Schiller monument; you pay a fine of ten thousand francs; you will suffer two years' imprisonment at hard labor; you will then be horsewhipped, tarred and feathered, deprived of your ears, ridden on a rail to the confines of the canton, and banished forever.

The severest penalties are omitted in your case--not as a grace to you, but to that great republic which had the misfortune to give you birth." The steamer's benches were ranged back to back across the deck.

My back hair was mingling innocently with the back hair of a couple of ladies.

Presently they were addressed by some one and I overheard this conversation: "You are Americans, I think?
So'm I." "Yes--we are Americans." "I knew it--I can always tell them.

What ship did you come over in ?" "CITY OF CHESTER." "Oh, yes--Inman line.


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