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Excerpt from The Romance of a Chalet: A Story
The heat was stifling as we waited at Amberieu. It had been thundering and lightening. The sun glared angrily through a steamy veil. A fine rain was falling, and the air was inexpressibly heavy and sultry. A fat French lady in a rusty black gown and with three chins lapping over her greasy mantilla had had an altercation with the guard at Lyons as to a certain extra charge Of nine francs she had been called upon to pay for travelling express to Aix-les Bains. Now she summoned the station-master, and expostulated vehemently upon the delay. She de manded why they had made her pay nine francs of supplement in order that she might lose her train at Culoz. The Official shrugged his shoulders and walked on. When the train began to crawl slowly along again, the fat lady returned a stony stare and. 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.
