Supplement to Vacation Rambles Author:Thomas Noon Talfourd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. FROM PARIS TO MARSEILLES. Start in false Diligence for Marseilles—Journey to Dijon— Distant aspect of Dijon—Aggravated sufferings in Diligence... more » to Chalons—Voyage down the Saone to Lyons—Lyons— Meeting -with '' the Blind Traveller" — Performance of " Robert the Devil" without the Nuus—Voyage down the Rhone to Avignon—Avignon—Dreadful journey through the night to Marseilles—A glimpse of Lablache—View from Montebello of the Bay of Lyons—Associations with "Monte Christo"—The Sailor's Sunday night in the harbour of Marseilles The Play at Marseilles—Fruit at Marseilles —Farewell to Marseilles. On Wednesday, 26th of August, we bade a cheerful adieu to Paris, and having escaped the ignoble meshes of the passport-web (which can scarcely be more irritating under any Republic) started—-for Italy I We made a false star.t; for intending to go by Chalons and Lyons to Marseilles, we had taken our garden's word, in answer to our enquiries after a diligence to Chalons;—or perhaps had too lightly regarded hisanswer, as importing that there was only one office where the delights of travelling by a diligcnce thither could be insured; and, without further inquiry, condemned ourselves to the dominion of the office to which he directed us. It turned out that we were taken in; we had, indeed, secured places for Chalons, but in a diligence which progressed first to Dijon;—whence, after an interval of weary unrest, we might be forwarded by an associated travelling misery ;—the mistake involving a circuit of thirty miles, which, when added to two hundred in a French diligence, is a serious penalty for an error. We started, however, in happy ignorance of this part of our misfortune; but we became woefully conscious of another effect of our ignorant precipitation— our nicely printed...« less