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Irvin S. Cobb. Europe Revised
Europe Revised
Table of Contents
Chapter I. We Are Going Away From Here
Foreword
Chapter II. My Bonny Lies over the Ocean—Lies and Lies and Lies
Chapter III. Bathing Oneself on the Other Side
Chapter IV. Jacques, the Forsaken
Chapter V. When the Seven A.M. Tut-tut leaves for Anywhere
Chapter VI. La Belle France Being the First Stop
Chapter VII. Thence On and On to Verbotenland
Chapter VIII. A Tale of a String-bean
Chapter IX. The Deadly Poulet Routine
Chapter X. Modes of the Moment; a Fashion Article
Chapter XI. Dressed to Kill
Chapter XII. Night Life—with the Life Part Missing
Chapter XIII. Our Friend, the Assassin
Chapter XIV. That Gay Paresis
Chapter XV. Symptoms of the Disease
Chapter XVI. As Done in London
Chapter XVII. Britain in Twenty Minutes
Chapter XVIII. Guyed or Guided?
Chapter XIX. Venice and the Venisons
Chapter XX. The Combustible Captain of Vienna
Chapter XXI. Old Masters and Other Ruins
Chapter XXII. Still More Ruins, Mostly Italian Ones
Chapter XXIII. Muckraking in Old Pompeii
Chapter XXIV. Mine Own People
Chapter XXV. Be it Ever so Humble
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Irvin S. Cobb
Published by Good Press, 2021
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There came two stewards, bearing with them pillows and blankets and rugs. These articles were disposed to advantage in two steamer chairs. Then the stewards hurried away; but presently they reappeared, dragging the limp and dangling forms of the bridal couple from the central part of Ohio. But oh, my countrymen, what a spectacle! And what a change from what had been!
The going-away gown was wrinkled, as though worn for a period of time by one suddenly and sorely stricken in the midst of health. The bride's once well-coifed hair hung in lank disarray about a face that was the color of prime old sage cheese—yellow, with a fleck of green here and there—and in her wan and rolling eye was the hunted look of one who hears something unpleasant stirring a long way off and fears it is coming this way.
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