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The End of Her Honeymoon
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Cocher? lHôtel Saint Ange, Rue Saint Ange!The voice of John Dampier, Nancys three-weeks bridegroom, rang out strongly, joyously, on this the last evening of their honeymoon. And before the lightly hung open carriage had time to move, Dampier added something quickly, at which both he and the driver laughed in unison.Nancy crept nearer to her husband. It was tiresome that she knew so littleFrench.Im telling the man were not in any hurry, and that he can take us round by the Boulevards. I wont have you seeing Paris from an ugly angle the first time-darling!But Jack? Its nearly midnight! Surely therell be nothing to see on theBoulevards now?Wont there? You wait and see-Paris never goes to sleep!And then-Nancy remembered it long, long afterwards-something very odd and disconcerting happened in the big station yard of the Gare de Lyon. The horse stopped-stopped dead. If it hadnt been that the bridegrooms arm enclosed her slender, rounded waist, the bride might have been thrown out.
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