. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. ee connected with ourselves. During our absenceon the Upper Saone he was seated one afternoon in his private room absorbed in hisaccounts, when, at five oclock precisely, he heard a horrible noise, and could not, onthe instant, make out the nature of it. He had, however, time to think This is aninfernal machine that has been placed in the bank by some scoundrels, and it is nowin action. In a few seconds the explosion will take place. The noise appeared toproceed from a small brown paper parcel, which he opened
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. ee connected with ourselves. During our absenceon the Upper Saone he was seated one afternoon in his private room absorbed in hisaccounts, when, at five oclock precisely, he heard a horrible noise, and could not, onthe instant, make out the nature of it. He had, however, time to think This is aninfernal machine that has been placed in the bank by some scoundrels, and it is nowin action. In a few seconds the explosion will take place. The noise appeared toproceed from a small brown paper parcel, which he opened to discover an alarumclock. I regret to say that the alarum belonged to me, and that it was I whohad set it to the hour of five. On ascending the Saone I had left this dreadfulthing at Gray, for some trifling repair, and it had been sent to the bank to awaitmy return. A Summer Voyage. 129 elegant. The lancet lights above are also a heavier repetitionof those at Autun. The architecture of the church generally isan inferior Gothic, more likely to please a painter than fi ! I«
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