. Days in the open. V OVER THE SIMPLON PASS ^E agreed, my wife and I, that thecouple whom we saw for the firsttime in the post-office at DomedOssoli and a Httle later met inthe gathering room at the hotel,would be well worth were, evidently, not only husband andwife, but good chums, thoroughly congenial, andrejoicing in each others companionship. Thatthey were intelligent no one could doubt, and theyradiated kindliness and courtesy. They weredressed for roughing it, and we were prepared forthe remark of the gentleman, made to a by-stander,that they had been spending a week in moun
. Days in the open. V OVER THE SIMPLON PASS ^E agreed, my wife and I, that thecouple whom we saw for the firsttime in the post-office at DomedOssoli and a Httle later met inthe gathering room at the hotel,would be well worth were, evidently, not only husband andwife, but good chums, thoroughly congenial, andrejoicing in each others companionship. Thatthey were intelligent no one could doubt, and theyradiated kindliness and courtesy. They weredressed for roughing it, and we were prepared forthe remark of the gentleman, made to a by-stander,that they had been spending a week in mountainclimbing in the neighbourhood. When he addedthat they would cross into the Rhone Valley by dili-gence on the morrow, we were conscious of a dis-tinctly pleasant sensation at the thought that, for65 66 DAYS IN THE OPEN one day at least, they were to be our fellow-trav-ellers. The table dhote that evening gave us the desiredopportunity to cultivate the acquaintance of the at-tractive strangers, for they were seate
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