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[My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed]
Everybody was out-of-doors; everybody was in the principal street of the village -- not on the sidewalks, but all over the street; everybody was lounging, loafing, chatting, waiting, alert, expectant, interested -- for it was train-time. That is to say, it was diligence-time -- the half-dozen big diligences would soon be arriving from Geneva, and the village was interested, in many ways, in knowing how many people were coming and what sort of folk they might be. It was altogether the livest-looking street we had seen in any village on the continent.