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The President had not been waiting for his return, nor even for that of the mounted messenger, but rather to give the storm time to abate a little.
"Only a very little," said he; "it cannot signify whether we arrive half an hour earlier or later; and as for our nocturnal drive in an open cart on our roads, my dear young lady, we shall always experience that soon enough and painfully enough."