VOYAGE OF CONSOLATION
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[Illustration: "Jamais!" (see Page 156.)]
A VOYAGE OF CONSOLATION
(BEING IN THE NATURE OF A SEQUEL TO THE EXPERIENCES OF "AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON")
BY
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN (MRS. EVERARD COTES)
AUTHOR OF
A SOCIAL DEPARTURE, AN AMERICAN GIRL IN LONDON, A DAUGHTER OF TO-DAY, VERNON's AUNT, THE STORY OF SONNY SAHIB, HIS HONOUR AND A LADY, ETC.
[Illustration]
_ILLUSTRATED_
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1898
Copyright, 1897, 1898,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
FACING PAGE
"Jamais!" _Frontispiece_
Momma was enjoying herself 36
"I expect you've seen these before" 45
Breakfast with Dicky Dod 99
"Are you paid to make faces?" 140
We followed the monks 169
Dicky shouted till the skeletons turned to listen 189
We were sitting in a narrow balcony 194
"I'm not a crowned head!" 208
"Do you see?" 256
Fervent apologies 265
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Voyage of Consolation by Sara Jeannette Duncan
- 2: In several of my letters just to assure Mr
- 3: I should defy anybody to be more magnanimous than I was
- 4: I mean the loveliest nation after Americans
- 5: To be allowed to restore that defective larynx
- 6: Poppa and I were often personal in our intercourse
- 7: Momma said that she expected Mrs
- 8: While I was unfolding it poppa eyed me askance
- 9: Poppa removed his hand from his chin
- 10: But before monarchical institutions momma weakened
- 11: Or introduce poppa to the House of Lords
- 12: Another thing that Bramley said was
- 13: It was momma who finally brought him to a halt
- 14: But it was momma who broke the silence
- 15: Poppa walked slowly towards the door
- 16: Illustration Momma was enjoying herself
- 17: Forget Mike McConnell and Jimmy Fagan
- 18: Above all the poplars the poplars are very characteristic
- 19: And Yes certainly you get presently your tronks
- 20: Francois went away to seek the man belonging to the lift
- 21: Momma has a great deal of manner with strangers
- 22: I said nothing whatever to poppa
- 23: Poppa is such an optimist about Chicago
- 24: Bramley said it was a very fine painting
- 25: Cried one of the Misses Bingham
- 26: Suggested poppa a little stiffly
- 27: And momma and I looked at one another intelligently
- 28: If you like that fotograff you can buy
- 29: Pabbley declined to produce those figures
- 30: Hinkson than the Misses Bingham were
- 31: They were taking Emmeline abroad for her health
- 32: And everything will be quite propre
- 33: Momma drew her shawl round her preparatory to withdrawing
- 34: Momma is naturally a person of some timidity
- 35: As we stood looking at the Eiffel Tower
- 36: I've no desire to play it low down on Bramley
- 37: Portheris was poppa's relation
- 38: Mafferton was one of my London acquaintances
- 39: Portheris exclaimed from the lift
- 40: The way Mafferton purrs round the old lady
- 41: But I'll see what momma can do
- 42: Momma examined him from the carriage
- 43: That momma must not be allowed to pick up the expression
- 44: On the hotel doorstep next morning waited Alessandro Bebbini
- 45: Who informa you Cristoforo Colombo was Americano
- 46: Said Alessandro Bebbini apologetically
- 47: But poppa declined to go as far as that
- 48: Momma was charmed to recognise it
- 49: The rooster was in great affliction
- 50: Mafferton occupied the middle distance
- 51: She said when poppa had finished
- 52: Dod was conceiving an attachment for her Isabel
- 53: Summoned by momma to look at the last in view
- 54: But his eye rested upon momma at this point
- 55: Let me introduce Count Filgiatti
- 56: I daresay poppa and momma have got their own opinions
- 57: His demeanour showed that he resented the Malts
- 58: But the hint was lost and Emmeline remained
- 59: Malt said it made her feel quite idolatrous to look at them
- 60: You intend to go to see the Baths of Caracallus
- 61: I must be a very bad substitute for momma and poppa
- 62: Only to make possible the arrangimento
- 63: But there is still somethings ah signorina
- 64: In America the daughter maka always her own arrangimento
- 65: Mafferton would consent to be even tolerably at his ease
- 66: Mafferton with incipient animation
- 67: Portheris was awaiting us by the gate
- 68: And Brother Eusebius shook the bottle
- 69: I have count another day and he ith nine only
- 70: Said Brother Demetrius crossly
- 71: Portheris and I simultaneously
- 72: The tombs passed us in solemn grey ranges
- 73: Portheris grasped his arm convulsively
- 74: Portheris smiled in unison somewhat foolishly
- 75: Dicky squeezed my hand nervously
- 76: Portheris returned to the tomb
- 77: Portheris sustained nature during our imprisonment
- 78: He said that's soup consommy
- 79: Mafferton blushed unless it was the glow from the volcano
- 80: Mafferton looked at me suspiciously
- 81: Mafferton would join my lonely parent in the smoking room
- 82: Mafferton considerately walked to the door
- 83: I don't get my imagination entirely from momma
- 84: Poppa bore it as long as he could
- 85: Portheris consideringly and then strolled away
- 86: When we get home you ask Bramley
- 87: Mafferton read to us impressively
- 88: Dod had been banished from the Portheris party
- 89: Or momma if it's a case of widow
- 90: But it is not Cimabue unknown artiss
- 91: Nancy here had perfect confidence in him
- 92: And we parted from the Miss Binghams
- 93: I daresay she could and as for your poppa
- 94: Has nothing to do with poppa and the commercial traveller
- 95: They will always have that mortadella
- 96: And poppa decided that it must
- 97: It's getting wateryer and wateryer
- 98: But if you wish to gratify your poppa
- 99: A highly picturesque and intelligent gondolier
- 100: But momma referred to it otherwise
- 101: To walk up and have an octopus
- 102: The Scaligeri somehow had got on her nerves
- 103: A show in a Roman Amphitheatre one could imagine things
- 104: Mafferton to give Dicky a chance
- 105: Don't condone them you mustn't
- 106: Portheris had brought momma round
- 107: Mafferton was counting the luggage somewhere
- 108: While momma struggled after tentative uncertainties
- 109: After that it was impossible to wink at poppa
- 110: Mafferton was collecting the portmanteaux
- 111: Portheris was of the same mind
- 112: Mafferton interfered in the least with the Engadine
- 113: So mine uncle Blittens Josef Blittens
- 114: Momma and poppa the dining room
- 115: It was a gray and sulky Bodensee
- 116: Left in the same hotel with Count Filgiatti
- 117: And we were suddenly bereft of Emmeline
- 118: Not for what I could show Schaffhausen
- 119: Mafferton and I had paused in our conversation
- 120: And the local oath Per Perkeo
- 121: Perkeo was not so sentimental as the Trumpeter of Sakkingen
- 122: The Senator had an object in Heidelberg
- 123: Our waitresses were all that could be desired
- 124: Malt was unsatisfied with poppa's revenge on Bawlinbuttons
- 125: Portheris had married Germans in her compartment
- 126: Said Miss Callis without meaning to
- 127: Miss Callis gave me back my hand
- 128: For I felt that I must see Isabel Mrs
- 129: And I will not elope with you alone
- 130: Asked Dicky in a joyous and expansive tone
- 131: Then since you're not going to marry Dod
- 132: And Emmeline seemed to think she'd like to have one
- 133: The Widow Guthrie is admirably drawn
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