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A Voyage of Consolation

CHAPTER XV
8/17

Augusta, if you have had enough of the Bay of Naples and the moon, I might remind you of the buried city of Pompeii, which is on for to-morrow.

It's a good long way out, and you'll want all your powers of endurance.

I'm going down to have a smoke, and a look at the humorous publications of Italy.

There's no sort of sociability about these hotels, but the head _portier_ knows a little English." "I suppose I had better retire," momma admitted, "though I sometimes wish Mr.Wick wasn't so careful of my nervous system.

Delicious scene, good-night." And she too left us.
We were sitting in a narrow balcony that seemed to jut out of a horn of the city's lovely crescent.


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