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It was Joule with a long thermometer in his hand, which he would not trust by itself in the ���󲹰�-à-�����Գ�, coming slowly up the hill behind him, lest it should get broken.

But there, comfortably and safely seated in the ���󲹰�-à-�����Գ�, was his bride—the sympathetic companion and sharer in his work of after years.

“Voilà votre affaire,” he said, and indicated a machine that would have been out of date when the first ���󲹰�-à-�����Գ� was constructed.

The party, some half-dozen in number, and of the English nation, had arrived at Chamouny in the night, later by some hours than they ought to have done, owing to the break-down of their nondescript vehicle, called a ���󲹰�-à-�����Գ�, just after they had quitted St. Martin, a quiet little village, whence the view of Mont Blanc is splendid in the extreme.

During their quiet journey back to St. Martin, in the ���󲹰�-à-�����Գ�, they, having nothing better to do, began discussing the episode, as John Rayner himself named it.