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6S An Inland Voyage,
taken for a pedlar. I might think that I ate
with greater dehcacy, or that my mistakes in
French belonged to a different order ; but it was
plain that these distinctions would be thrown
away upon the landlady and the two labourers.
In all essential things, we and the Gilliards cut
very much the same figure in the ale-house
kitchen. M. Hector was more at home, indeed,
and took a higher tone with the world ; but that
was explicable on the ground of his driving a
donkey-cart, while we poor bodies tramped
afoot. I daresay, the rest of the company
thought us dying with ^n\y, though in no ill-
sense, to be as far up in the profession as the
new arrival.
And of one thing I am sure : that every^onc
thawed and became more humanized and con-
versible as soon as these innocent people ap-
peared upon the scene. I would not very
readily trust the travelling merchant with any
taken for a pedlar. I might think that I ate
with greater dehcacy, or that my mistakes in
French belonged to a different order ; but it was
plain that these distinctions would be thrown
away upon the landlady and the two labourers.
In all essential things, we and the Gilliards cut
very much the same figure in the ale-house
kitchen. M. Hector was more at home, indeed,
and took a higher tone with the world ; but that
was explicable on the ground of his driving a
donkey-cart, while we poor bodies tramped
afoot. I daresay, the rest of the company
thought us dying with ^n\y, though in no ill-
sense, to be as far up in the profession as the
new arrival.
And of one thing I am sure : that every^onc
thawed and became more humanized and con-
versible as soon as these innocent people ap-
peared upon the scene. I would not very
readily trust the travelling merchant with any
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Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Non-Fiction > Books > Inland voyage > (90) Page 68 |
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Written and printed matter > Books |
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Dates / events: |
1878 [Date published] |
Places: |
Europe >
Belgium >
Flanders >
Antwerpen province >
Antwerp
(inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > France > Île-de-France > Val-d'Oise > Cergy-Pontois (inhabited place) [Place in text] Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published] |
Subject / content: |
Description Travel Canoes |
Person / organisation: |
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Illustrator] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Subject of text] C. Kegan Paul & Co. [Publisher] |
Person / organisation: |
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] |
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