THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
Part 2, Chapters 11 to 20
by Mark Twain
THE INNOCENTS ABROAD
by Mark Twain
[From an 1869—1st Edition]
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER XI.
Getting used to it—No Soap—Bill of Fare, Table d'hote—"An AmericanSir"—A Curious Discovery—The "Pilgrim" Bird—StrangeCompanionship—A Grave of the Living—A Long Captivity—Some of Dumas' Heroes—Dungeonof the Famous "Iron Mask."
CHAPTER XII.
A Holiday Flight through France—Summer Garb of the Landscape—Abroadon the Great Plains—Peculiarities of French Cars—French PolitenessAmerican Railway Officials—"Twenty Mnutes to Dinner!"—Why thereare no Accidents—The "Old Travellers"—Still on the Wing—Paris atLast——French Order and Quiet—Place of the Bastile—Seeing theSights—A Barbarous Atrocity—Absurd Billiards
CHAPTER XIII.
More Trouble—Monsieur Billfinger—Re-Christening the Frenchman—In theClutches of a Paris Guide—The International Exposition—Fine MilitaryReview—Glimpse of the Emperor Napoleon and the Sultan of Turkey
CHAPTER XIV.
The Venerable Cathedral of Notre-Dame—Jean Sanspeur'sAddition—Treasures and Sacred Relics—The Legend of the Cross—The Morgue—TheOutrageious 'Can-Can'—Blondin Aflame—The Louvre Palace—The GreatPark—Showy Pageantry—Preservation of Noted Things
CHAPTER XV.
French National Burying—Ground—Among the Great Dead—The Shrine ofDisappointed Love—The Story of Abelard and Heloise—"English SpokenHere"—"American Drinks Compounded Here"—Imperial Honors to anAmerican—The Over-estimated Grisette—Departure