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appearance? "Sala," says the guide-book,
"lies in a valley, in a flat, and not very pleasant
district." And so truly it is: it was not very
attractive approaching it our way, and the high
road led directly into the town, which is
without any distinctive character. It consists
of a long street with what we may term a
nucleus and a few fibres. The nucleus is the
market-place, and the fibres are the few lanes
diverging from it. The long street – that is to
say, long in a little town – is quite without
passengers; no one comes out from the doors,
no one is to be seen af the windows.
It was therefore with pleased surprise that I
at length descried a human being: it was at an
ironmonger’s, where there hung a paper of pins,
a handkerchief and two tea-pots in the window.
There I saw a solitary shop-boy, standing quite
still, but leaning over the counter and looking
out of the open door. He certainly wrote in
his journal, if he had one, in the evening:
"To-day a traveller drove through the town;
who he was, God knows, for I don’t!" – yes,
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