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This time he started South in true earnest, hurtling southward on one of the crack trains of the P. M., his nose flattened against the window of the compartment and his eyes glued on the landscape with such an unwinking intensity, a desperate and insatiate greed, that his fellow-passengers stared at him curiously and then looked at one another with quiet smiles and winks.
Diesmal wollte er wirklich in den Süden, und er sauste in einem der erstklassigen Züge der P.L.M.41 hinunter, drückte sich die Nase am Abteilfenster platt und starrte mit solcher Inbrunst und Unersättlichkeit hinaus, dass seine Mitreisenden ihn neugierig musterten und einander still lächelnde, augenzwinkernde Blicke zuwarfen.
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