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`` I do n't know what you mean by your fun about the American hotels , but I think this quite gorgeous , and the people so civil ! '' Hotel people always are civil before the crowds come . Of course it was impossible that Paul should return to London by the mail train which started about an hour after his arrival . He would have reached London at four or five in the morning , and have been very uncomfortable . The following day was Sunday , and of course he promised to stay till Monday . Of course he had said nothing in the train of those stern things which he had resolved to say . Of course he was not saying them when Roger Carbury came upon him ; but was indulging in some poetical nonsense , some probably very trite raptures as to the expanse of the ocean , and the endless ripples which connected shore with shore .