science That
Does Not Get Up Too Early.--Villainy Triumphant.--Virtue Ordered
Outside.--A Homely English Row.

When I say I was "awakened" at Ostend, I do not speak the strict truth.
I was not awakened--not properly. I was only half-awakened. I never did
get fairly awake until the afternoon. During the journey from Ostend to
Cologne I was three-parts asleep and one-part partially awake.

At Ostend, however, I was sufficiently aroused to grasp the idea that we
had got somewhere, and that I must find my luggage and B., and do
something or other; in addition to which, a strange, vague instinct, but
one which I have never yet known deceive me, hovering about my mind, and
telling me that I was in the neighbourhood of something to eat and drink,
spurred me to vigour and action.

I hurried down into the saloon and there found B. He excused himself for
having left me alone all night--he need not have troubled himself. I had
not pined for him in the least. If the only woman I had ever loved had
been on board, I should have sat silent, and let any other fellow talk to
her that wanted to, and that felt equal to it--by explaining that he had
met a friend and that they had been talking. It appeared to have been a
trying conversation.

I also ran against the talkative man and his companion. Such a complete
wreck of a once strong man as the latter looked I have never before seen.
Mere sea-sickness, however severe, could never have accounted for the
change in his appearance since, happy and hopeful, he entered the
railway-carriage at Victoria six short hours ago. His friend, on the
other hand, appeared fresh and cheerful, and was relating an anecdote
about a cow.

We took our bags into the Custom House and opened them, and I sat down on
mine, and immediately went to sleep.

When I awoke, somebody whom I mistook at first for a Field-Marshal, and
from force of habit--I was once a volunteer--saluted, was standing over
me, pointing melodramatically at my bag. I assured him in picturesque
German that I had nothing to declare. He did not appear to comprehend
me, which struck me as curious, and took the bag away from me, which left
me nothing to sit upon but the floor. But I felt too sleepy to be
indignant.

After our luggage had been examined, we went into the buffet. My
instinct had not misled me: there I found hot coffee, and rolls and
butter. I ordered two coffees with milk, some bread, and some butter. I
ordered t