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A Long Chapter, but happily the Last. -- The Pilgrims' Return. -- A Deserted Town. -- Heidelberg. -- The Common, or Bed, Sheet, Considered as a Towel. -- B. Grapples with a Continental Time Table. -- An Untractable Train. -- A Quick Run. -- Trains that Start from Nowhere. -- Trains that Arrive at Nowhere. -- Trains that Don't Do Anything. -- B. Goes Mad. -- Railway Travelling in Germany. -- B. is Taken Prisoner. -- His Fortitude. -- Advantages of Ignorance. -- First Impressions of Germany and of the Germans.
We are at Ostend. Our pilgrimage has ended. We sail for Dover in three hours' time. The wind seems rather fresh, but they say that it will drop towards the evening. I hope they are not deceiving us.