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The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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could do it in a day and a half, and you have been six weeks about it."

"Six weeks! I sometimes think I have loved her all my life," said Lynde.

From the Schweizerhof the young men drove without speaking to the
railroad station, which they reached just in time for Flemming to catch
his train. With hurriedly exchanged promises to write each other, the
two parted on the platform. Then Lynde in a serenely happy frame of mind
caused himself to be driven to the Rue des Paquis, where he stopped at
the chateau of the French marquis, which looked remarkably like a
livery-stable, and arranged for a certain travelling-carriage to be at
the door of the hotel the next morning at eight.




VIII

FROM GENEVA TO CHAMOUNI


If there is in all the world as lovely a day's ride as that from Geneva
to Chamouni, it must be the ride from Chamouni to Geneva. Lynde would
not have made even this concession the next morning, as a heavy-wheeled
carriage, containing three travellers and drawn by four stout Savoy
horses, rolled through the Grande Place, and, amid a salvo of whip-lash
and a cloud of dust, took the road to Bonneville.

"I did not think I cared very much for Geneva," said Miss Denham,
leaning from the carriage side to look back at the little Swiss capital
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