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ton to Paris is the least item in the cost ; my dogs 

 ought, according to the measure of payment, to sit 

 in the first-class saloon on board the ship and rail- 

 way carriage,, and I ought to stuff' myself into the 

 hole they call their box." I stared at my purse in 

 astonishment; and well knowing I should not clear 

 Tattersall's under heavy charges, with two hundred 

 miles of railway still to get over, as well as the hire 

 of a cab and my charges at the hotel, I began to fear, 

 as it was then late at night, that I should never re- 

 plenish my finances in time for the early morning 

 train on the Orleans line, by which Monsieur d'An- 

 chald expected me, and to which train he was to 

 send his carriage to take me to the chateau. 



The consideration of these things annoyed me. I 

 should, in the first place, disappoint my kind friends, 

 and, in the second, lose my Saturday's sport ; for, as I 

 expected to arrive at Sauvages for dinner on Friday, 

 Saturday would see me fresh enough for any fun that 

 was forthcoming. Upon an exclamation of " bore " 

 from me (not " boar "), my friend the captain asked 

 what was the matter ; and, when I told him, he (with 

 a frankness which I think was flattering to both) 

 immediately asked if I would accept at his hands any 

 sum I wanted, and which I could return to him at my 

 own time on reaching my journey's end. " Yes," 



