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Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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nally>A favourite remedy is the whey cure, and people rise up in themorning with the spirit of earnest infatuation for their glass of wheyor milk, and repeat the dose so many times during the day. In the Black Forest 137 The forest walks are numerous. You may wander about the hilland lose yourself in paths that lead apparently to nowhere; pathsthat seem to exist only to lure you on—whether to fortune or tofate, those know who have found the end. We wandered, twoof us, up one of these tempting, mysterious tracks until we reached amaze where wood and tangle and bracken crackled and rustledbeneath our feet, only to turn back at last in despair of ever findinga goal or the summit of the hill. But every now and then we cameto a spot where a view lovely and far-reaching met the eye. Baden-weiler at our feet; the ruined castle built by the Romans for theprotection of their baths, rising picturesquely and romantically bythe side of the hotel; stretching far beyond, a vast, wide-spreading
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Bonn. plain, watered by the ever-lovely Rhine, the distance bounded bythose graceful Vosges mountains, with their soft, wavy, long-drawnundulations. Undoubtedly there is much that is pleasant and attractive aboutBadenweiler. Visitors make themselves very happy here during theirsojourn. The season, to-day, was almost over, people were leaving;most, indeed, had left already. That very morning an Americangroup had departed with a great show of ceremony, rustle, luggage,carriages, ^clat, and douceurs. The chatelaine (may the word be per-mitted without loss of caste ?) of the party had gone about the sallea manger and other rooms, dropping substantial showers of goldpieces into the hands of every asphyxiated waiter she could summonfrom the most invisible shades, from the highest to the lowest. Thewhole was done with that wonderful air of grande dame dispensingfavours that was highly entertaining. Then there was much arrang- 138 In the Black Forest. ing of places and settling of seats, and

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