I. THE PARIS-VENTIMIGLIA EXPRESS
MARSEILLES!
The fast Paris-Ventimiglia train, one of the Grand European Expresses, had stopped a moment at Marseilles.
It was about seven in the morning of a winter day. The huge cars, with their bevelled-glass windows, dripped water from all parts; the locomotive puffed, resting from its run, and the bellows between car and car, like great accordeons, had black drops slipping down their corrugations.
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