The things we do!

I wondered if
all the Frenchmen read Bell's Life, and if all the inns smell so of
brandy-and-water!
"We walked out to see the town, which I dare say you know, and therefore
shan't describe. We saw some good studies of fishwomen with bare legs,
and remarked that the soldiers were very dumpy and small. We were glad
when the time came to set off by the diligence; and having the coupe to
ourselves, made a very comfortable journey to Paris. It was jolly to hear
the postillions crying to their horses, and the bells of the team, and to
feel ourselves really in France. We took in provender at Abbeville and
Amiens, and were comfortably landed here after about six-and-twenty hours
of coaching. Didn't I get up the next morning and have a good walk in the
Tuileries! The chestnuts were out, and the statues all shining, and all
the windows of the palace in a blaze. It looks big enough for the king of
the giants to live in. How grand it is! I like the barbarous splendour of
the architecture, and the ornaments profuse and enormous with which it is
overladen.


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