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he could not go home on foot. He will surely get ill
and he could not afford it given that his family was
very poor and his low income was just enough to
avoid the hunger. Observing the street around him,
he decided to take refuge under a horse-drawn
omnibus shelter and wait the end of the
thunderstorm. He could hear the far noises of the
boats coming in the Southampton port. M. Stuart put
his hand into his pocket to take a gold little clock
consumed by time. On the opposite side of the clock
was his wife’s picture, Miss Jeanne Stuart, a blonde
French woman with two big blue eyes. He was
watching it when a noise drew his attention. He
looked at the place in which the noise appeared to
come from and he saw a carriage pulled by four black
horses. This horse-drawn carriage was speeding
through the big droplets fallen from the sky. M.
Stuart, seeing an opportunity to be at home sooner
than expected, screamed towards the carriage. The
vehicle passed in front of him without stopping and
M. Stuart cursed. However, at his great
astonishment, the carriage halted abruptly two yards
from him. The coachman jumped from his place and
opened the carriage’s door on which there were
engraved with gold letters the initials “ES”, and
invited our man to come in. Puzzled but having not
choice, M. Stuart climbed the little stairs and sat on

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