单选题
The train I was travelling
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was already half an hour
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. I had planned
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Vienna at 7:15 in time
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the 7:25 train to Paris, but there was no hope of that now. I
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the situation to the ticket-collector who
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me to get off two stops
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Vienna Central Station and
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a taxi. When the time came, he even helped me with my
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. He wished me good
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as I
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, and a few minutes later I
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towards the center of the city in a taxi. It was
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7:28 when we stopped outside the station. I paid the driver
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,
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the bags and hurried inside. "Paris train?" was all
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I had time
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to the first official I saw. You can imagine my
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when he pointed a train that
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out of the station
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great speed.