And without raising his eyes from the end of his cigar, he started anew his usual movement, with his hands as always clasped behind him.
I must note that no one saw Mr. P. sitting down on the steamship, except at the table during dinner, and I perhaps will be the first to see him standing still for a few seconds. Since the moment he first set foot on the deck, he started moving as if he was the sphere of a pendulum compelled to run exactly at a certain speed the long distance between prow and stern, regularly and perpetually, and it would be a very inductive problem for a mathematician to determine how many times Mr. P. during that journey covered that distance between Piraeus and Naples on foot, while he paid the company to consign this labour to one of their ships.
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