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Goodness! Twelve o'clock! time for the bus! what a lot of people! what a lot of
people! aren't we squashed! bloody funny! that chap! what a face! and what a neck!
two-foot long! at least! and the cord! the cord! I hadn't seen it! the cord! that's the
bloody funniest! oh! the cord! round his hat! A cord! bloody funny! too bloody funny!
here we go, now he's yammering! the chap with the cord! at the chap next to him!
what's he saying! The other chap! claims he trod on his toes! They're going to come to
blows! definitely! no, though! yes they are, though! go wonn! go wonn! bit him in the
eye! charge! hit 'im! well I never! no, though! he's climbing down! the chap! with the
long neck! with the cord! it's a vacant seat he's charging! yes! the chap!
Well! 't's true! no! I'm right! it's really him! over there! in the Cour de Rome! in front
of the gare Saint-Lazare! mooching up and down! with another chap! and what's the
other chap telling him! that he ought to get an extra button! yes! a button on his coat!
On his coat!