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"'Oh! if that is the only objection I certainly shall not allow myself to smoke.'
"'No, no!' said the old maid evidently much shocked, 'vous exit, go out, ou moi crier!' 'Garde,' she shouted out of the window, 'faites go out cette monseer!'
"The guard appeared at the door, and not only ordered, but ignominously turned me out of that carriage, just as if I had been a second Col. Baker.
"I was so ashamed of myself, so mortified, that my stomach—which had always been delicate—was actually quite upset by the shock I had received, therefore no sooner had the train started than I began to be, first uncomfortable, then to feel a rumbling pain, and at last a pressing want, so much so that I could hardly sit down on my seat, squeeze as much as I could, and I dared not move for fear of the consequences.
"After some time the train stopped for a few minutes, no guard came to open the carriage door, I managed to get up, no guard was to be seen, no place where I could ease myself. I was debating what to do when the train started off.
