This tranquilizes them. We were just about to go to bed early in the evening, and catch up on Page 309 some of the sleep we had lost, when we heard of this Vesuvius expedition. There was to be eight of us in the party, and we were to leave Naples at midnight. We laid in some provisions for the trip, engaged carriages to take us to Annunciation, and then moved about the city, to keep awake, till twelve. We got away punctually, and in the course of an hour and a half arrived at the town of Annunciation.
Annunciation is the very last place under the sun.
And so they go. There is no office too degrading for them to perform, for money. I judge that what they lack in one or two of the bad traits the canaille have, they make up in one or two others that are worse. I said I knew nothing against the upper classes by personal observation. I had forgotten.