This of itself is enough to throw the equablest mind off its balance.
We have a _coupe_ to ourselves.

This is quite opposed to my wishes, nor is it Sir Roger's doing, but Schmidt, the courier, knowing what is seemly on those occasions--what he has always done for all former freshly-wed couples whom he has escorted--secured it before we could prevent him.

As for me, it would have amused me to see the people come in and out, to air my timid German in little remarks about the weather; albeit I have thus early discovered that the German, which we have been exhorted to talk among ourselves in the school-room, to perfect us in that tongue, bears no very pronounced likeness to the language as talked by the indigenous inhabitants.

They _will_ talk so fast, and they never say any thing in the least like Ollendorff.
_Sixteen hours and a half_ of a _tete-a-tete_ more complete and unbroken than any we have yet enjoyed.

All day I watch the endless, treeless, hedgeless German flats fly past; the straight-lopped poplars, the spread of tall green wheat, the blaze of rape-fields--the villages and towns, with two-towered German churches, over and over, and over again.