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Excerpt from Dear Experience: A Tale
Suppose five hundred people caged within a space just large enough to hold a moiety of the number, suppose, in the heart of each of these five hundred people, a frantic craving to be foremost, a frantic determination to be so by fair means or foul - and you may then easily picture to yourself the uproar and confusion exhibited in the waiting-room of the Boulogne Railway terminus, on this blessed 19th of August 1855. The swell in the channel, midway between the White cliffs of Albion and the Opposite dusky French coast, was not half so terrific as the Swell of human waves compressed within the narrow limits of those four walls. The company was almost exclusively English, and therefore most respectable, of that there cbuld be no doubt. Perhaps the com bined effects of a paroxysm of loyalty, (they were running after the Gracious Majesty of England, who had passed on to Paris the day before, ) and the heat of the dog-days, might account for the extra activity of the bump of combativeness displayed on this occasion by these true-hearted subjects. Could the philosopher who said that man was a wolf to man have been a spectator of the scene. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
