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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER X
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But he is rarely six feet away from his carriage, and usually he is upon it, sound asleep! "The trunks having gone to St.Petersburg in advance of ourselves, our first duty was to get possession of them.

They were at the custom-house, across the city.

My nephew and I jumped upon a drosky--we could not say that we were really _in_ the drosky, for the seat was too short.

The drosky-driver started off his horse over the cobble-stones at a terrible rate.

I could not keep my seat, and I clung to W.He shouted, 'Don't hold by me; I shall be out the next minute!' What could be done?
I was sure I shouldn't stay on half a minute.


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