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Chapter XIX: Lying to Mr. Emerson<br />

The Miss Alans were found in their beloved<br />

temperance hotel near Bloomsbury--a clean,<br />

airless establishment much patronized by<br />

provincial England. They always perched<br />

there before crossing the great seas, and for a<br />

week or two would fidget gently over clothes,<br />

guide-books, mackintosh squares, digestive<br />

bread, and other Continental necessaries. That<br />

there are shops abroad, even in Athens, never<br />

occurred to them, for they regarded travel as a<br />

species of warfare, only to be undertaken by<br />

those who have been fully armed at the<br />

Haymarket Stores. Miss Honeychurch, they<br />

trusted, would take care to equip herself duly.<br />

Quinine could now be obtained in tabloids;<br />

paper soap was a great help towards<br />

freshening up one's face in the train. Lucy<br />

promised, a little depressed.<br />

"But, of course, you know all about these<br />

things, and you have Mr. Vyse to help you. A<br />

gentleman is such a stand-by."

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