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eled with my aunts, you poor child. Aunt Em will count the luggageall the luggageseven times and get seven different totals. And Gertrude will count with her and disagree. Aunt Harriet will lose something different in each and every place she stops, even if it's only a momentary pause in a corridor while the vehicle steadies itself. You're going to have to get all that luggage and five people with totally divergent interests on and off four vehicles, plus taxi cabs, plus into and out of hotels, plusit's too horrible to think about. And do you know how much luggage there will be for five people intending to stay for months when you include all the linens and the pots, pans, and kitchen supplies that Gertrude won't go without?" |
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Linda burst out laughing. "Well, if you traveled with all that luggage it's no wonder at all you found it exhausting. Of course all the heavy luggage, which means most of the clothing and all the pots and pans and etcetera, will go on ahead by ship. We would only need items to be used on the trip itself." |
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"You see?" Mrs. Bates said smugly. "Linda has it all planned already. I always said there must be an easier way." |
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Peter merely shrugged his shoulders in an irritable way and lowered his eyes to his cup, which Linda had quietly and tactfully filled and placed in front of him while he was talking of traveling difficulties. But when Mrs. Bates turned to assure Mrs. Sotheby that everything would arrive at the Corfu villa intact, he glanced |
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