The Argosy — page 391: what you’re looking at

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368 Letiers from Majorca. must have been inspired, as events proved. She dropped them grace- fully on to the head of Francisco, who stood just outside the door- way. Emerging flushed and breathless from this avalanche, his head bristling like a porcupine, but good tempered as ever, he handed the forgotten articles to H. C. who bowed his thanks to the hostess, and, in absence of mind and full sunshine, immediately proceeded to put them on. Now you may wear two coats, but though the ghost in the Bishop of Winchester’s song wore three old hats, it is certainly conspicuous, in travelling, to wear even two. I quietly took one off and put it away, and he was none the wiser. After all, absence of mind has its advantages. You can do very ———_—————- —- + : = = ————————— OO ——_ — — ————————————————— eee ee ee 8 ER = © <r ————_— naan : i —— s —- Lit Bh \ a = vt 1 uN \ Al Nt PN mt tl is Mt Der i1\ (SANTI) | tlh a = + DF THA Sy tore: wy 4 ‘ ‘ STARA SS —- PALMA; LOOKING TOWARDS BELVER. much as you will with these afflicted ones. Like an old friend of ours—you ask him at table what he will take, and he quietly says: ‘Thank you—nothing :” and half-a-dozen courses are placed before him one after another ; and everything disappears ; and in the end he doesn’t know what he has had, or whether he has had anything at all. He has charmed you all the time with his conversation, and I suppose he has entertained and absorbed his own mind and attention also. We started off again, this time for good. Down the street we clattered, round by the port, and up a wide thoroughfare—a sort of Palma boulevard, less picturesque and interesting than some of the narrower streets. Then we gained the railway station and passed out into the open country. It was our first introduction to anything beyond the confines of the CONNICLIOOKS EOI