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FlaubertAnd the lumbering machine set out. It went down the Rue And at once resuming its course, it passed by Saint-Sever,Grand-Pont, crossed the Place des Arts, the Quai Napoleon, by the Quai’des Curandiers, the Quai aux Meules, once morethe Pont Neuf, and stopped short before the statue of Pierre over the bridge, by the Place du Champ de Mars, and behindCorneille.the hospital gardens, where old men in black coats were walkingin the sun along the terrace all green with ivy. It went up“Go on,” cried a voice that came from within.The cab went on again, and as soon as it reached the the Boulevard Bouvreuil, along the Boulevard Cauchoise, thenCarrefour Lafayette, set off down-hill, and entered the stationat a gallop.It came back; and then, without any fixed plan or direc-the whole of Mont-Riboudet to the Deville hills.“No, straight on!” cried the same voice.tion, wandered about at hazard. The cab was seen at Saint-The cab came out by the gate, and soon having reached the Pol, at Lescure, at Mont Gargan, at La Rougue-Marc andCours, trotted quietly beneath the elm-trees. The coachman Place du Gaillardbois; in the Rue Maladrerie, Rue Dinanderie,wiped his brow, put his leather hat between his knees, and before Saint-Romain, Saint-Vivien, Saint-Maclou, Saintdrovehis carriage beyond the side alley by the meadow to the Nicaise—in front of the Customs, at the “Vieille Tour,” themargin of the waters.“Trois Pipes,” and the Monumental Cemetery. From time toIt went along by the river, along the towing-path paved time the coachman, on his box cast despairing eyes at thewith sharp pebbles, and for a long while in the direction of public-houses. He could not understand what furious desireOyssel, beyond the isles.for locomotion urged these individuals never to wish to stop.But suddenly it turned with a dash across Quatremares, He tried to now and then, and at once exclamations of angerSotteville, La Grande-Chaussee, the Rue d’Elbeuf, and made burst forth behind him. Then he lashed his perspiring jadesits third halt in front of the Jardin des Plantes.afresh, but indifferent to their jolting, running up against“Get on, will you?” cried the voice more furiously. things here and there, not caring if he did, demoralised, and209