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 already late. It may be imagined, that I was far from unhappy on hearing Reva's expression of surprise on discovering how much time had elapsed since we had risen from table. On hearing this naïve remark from her prospective sister, Ialma looked at me, and said I looked tired. Though her eyes sparkled with suppressed amusement, she ventured no other remark, except that she would take good care of my curricle, which, it had been arranged, she was to bring over in the morning.

This being the first time I journeyed by night in a curricle, I saw in operation for the first time the electric lamp with which it is provided. While leaving as in shadow, the lamp cast a long lane of light before us, for fully a quarter of a mile. We did not, however, travel quite so fast as by day; so that the distance I had traversed in half an hour in the morning took us nearly three-quarters.