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I'd bin at Ostende with a young barrister from London ... him I told you about once, who used to write plays, and we came on to Brussels because he had some business with the Belgian Government.
She put her hand luggage she had no other into a first-class compartment, and having an hour and a half to wait walked out to look at Ostende. Summer tourists were still there; the Casino was full of people, the shops were doing an active trade; the restaurants were crowded with English, Americans, Belgians taking tea, chocolate, or liqueurs at little tables and creating a babel of talk.
I sat a great while with her and Lady Betty, and talked over with them our foreign affairs; but no letter is come from Warner, although a mail is, as I see by the papers, arrived both from France and from Flanders. The Jamaica fleet is safe at last, and the Emperor declares Ostende to be a free port. The two Houses will rise yet this month, and this is all that I know of public matters.
The effeminacy belonged all to the tailor, an artist plying far from Corliss Street, for the coat would have encountered a hundred of its fellows at Trouville or Ostende this very day.
At Ostende she, to use one of her own expressions, "was not the only pebble on the beach." His nerves had had a good deal of exercise among that exceedingly pleasure-loving, frolicsome crew. Five years in the wilds had not changed him much, except to add to his annoying charm. He was more absolutely dare-devil and sure of himself and careless of all else than ever.
His solitary table was near theirs in the restaurant, and later he wrote to his friend, Michael Arranstoun, loitering at Ostende: The hotel is quite decent and after your long sojourn in the wilds, you will have an overdose of polo and expensive ladies and baccarat. You had much better join me here at the end of the week. There are two pretty women who would be quite your affair.
Her intimate friends had weeks earlier gone to Trouville, to Dinard, to Ostende, to Hombourg, even as far as Brighton; but she lingered, seemingly from perversity. She came regularly to the café about eleven, always in company with her Prince, and was untiringly served by Ambroise.
And he appeared so good and true and kind and I felt he could lift me to noble things and give me a guiding hand to greatness of purpose in life I liked him but I must tell you the truth, Michael, and you will see how small I am," here she held tightly to Michael's hand "I do not think I would ever have promised him at Carlsbad that I would try to free myself only that I read in the paper that you were at Ostende with Daisy Van der Horn.
He turned out to be a seminarist I think they called it from Ireland who was going to be trained for the priesthood at Louvain lots of Irish used to come there in those days. And somehow a fit of naughtiness had overcome him he was only twenty and he thought he'd like to see a bit of the world. So he'd sloped from his college and had a bit of a spree at Brussels and Ostende.
Now, however, he had announced that he had returned for good, and intended to spend the rest of his days at Arranstoun as a model landlord. He started this by playing polo at Ostende, where he had run across Henry Fordyce.
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