One of the marvels of modern traveling is the announcement that a passenger bent on doing things rapidly may leave London on any night at 8 o'clock, and the second night after, precisely at 8 o'clock--that is, in forty-eight hours--be in Madrid. The route is by way of Folkestone, Paris, Bordeaux and Treves.
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