Ultima Thule
“And one fine morning not long after, the trunks were brought out again, and she and Tilly fell to packing in earnest. Cuffy's resentment at being torn from the sea a whole fortnight too soon did not stand before the excitements of a journey: first in a coach and then in a train. Besides, Mamma had given him a little box to himself, to pack his shells in. Importantly he carried this, while she and Aunt Tilly ran about counting the other luggage. There was so much -- portmanteaux and bundles, and... baskets and bonnet-boxes, and beds and mattresses, and buckets and spades and the perambulator -- that they were afraid there wouldn't be room for it in the coach. But there was: they had it all to themselves. And direckly the door was shut the lunch-basket was opened; for one of the most 'squisite things about a journey was that you could eat as much as you liked and whenever you liked. Mamma was so nice, too, and didn't scold when you and Luce rushed to look first out of one window and then the other.MoreLess
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