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HAWTHORNE'S NOTE-BOOKS IN FRANCE AND ITALY.

—º F R A N C E. HoTEL DE Louvre, January 6, 1858. —On Tuesday morning, our dozen trunks and half-dozen carpet bags being all ready packed and labelled, we began to prepare for our journey two or three hours before light. Two cabs were at the door by half past six, and at seven we set out for the London Bridge station, while it was still dark and bitterly cold. There were already many people in the streets, growing more nu merous as we drove city-ward; and, in Newgate Street, there was such a number of market-carts, that we al

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station we found several persons who were apparently going in the same train with us, sitting round the fire

of the waiting-room. Since I came to England there has hardly been a morning when I should have less willingly bestirred myself before daylight; so sharp and inclement was the atmosphere. We started at half past eight, having taken through tickets to Paris

by way of Folkestone and Böulogne. VOL.

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