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Title: A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
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Publisher: Boston : Roberts brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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le to pay for what I hadtaken, so I explained my case to the lady. I owed five sous andpossessed but four. Having paid all but the last sou, I wasleaving when by accident I discovered just one sou in anotherpocket which enabled me to clear myself of debt. Then thelady said, This is a disappointment for me, monsieur, for solong as you were my debtor I was sure to see you again, whereasnow I am no longer sure. A trifle, but pretty in the thoughtand extremely neat in the expression. Another trifling incident pleased me. I was drawing theSaone with a steam-tug in the foreground and the tug was readyto start with its train of boats. The captain, however, saw meat work, and came ashore to say that he would postponehis departure a little if my sketch were not yet finished. It istrue that he was the same captain who took us up to Corre, but 1 Mr. PenneU always drew with the left hand during our voyage, and I believe hefinds it more convenient than the right, but he is able to use both to $•
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A Summer Voyage. 171 sketchers are not accustomed to so much consideration fromanybody. Whilst I was drawing, a great boat came suddenly round thecorner out of the Burgundy canal, and we had to get the rope overthe Boussemroum. The Pilot was fast asleep in the cabin, andthe Patron far too much absorbed in his cookery to heed any-thing. Luckily Captain Kornprobst was on board, so he and Ipassed the rope, which is difficult when boatmen are not accommo-dating,1 The men in the big boat were engaged in a furiousquarrel at the time, so they had not leisure to be considerate.We heard them quarrelling till we lost sight of them throughthe bridge. Franki asked permission to absent himself for half-a-day. Hewished to go to the village of St. Symphorien (where the Rhinecanal begins) to inquire after his brother, of whom nothing hadbeen heard for two years. This lad had quitted his situationwithout leaving an address, and had not written to his mother orto any one. A girl who had been in these p

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