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But that was nearly six weeks ago, and she had had time to recover. She had spent part of that period very peacefully and happily at the seaside with a young married cousin and her babies, and it had rested and refreshed her. She had come back with a calm resolve to endure what had to be endured in a philosophical spirit, to face the inevitable without futile rebellion.
And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife; and he answered, 'I am not very young, so I will have the eldest. And they were married that very day, and the soldier was chosen to be the king's heir. There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.
Peterkin declared there were always such discrepancies between the advertisements of seaside places and the actual facts; but he was more than satisfied with the farm part, and was glad to remain and admire it, while the rest of the family went to find the beach, starting off in a wagon large enough to accommodate them, Agamemnon driving the one horse.
One evening, when Mrs. Moorhouse and Sylvia were at the Warricombes', three or four Exeter people came to dine, and among the guests was Godwin Peak his invitation being due in this instance to Sylvia's express wish to meet him again. 'I am studying men, she had said to Sidwell not long before, when the latter was at the seaside with her. 'In our day this is the proper study of womankind.
In the course of the pestilence they had inherited a magnificent abode on the Esquiline. In particular it had a private bath with a large swimming-pool. The Vestals were the only ladies in Rome who might not enjoy the magnificent public baths, to which all Roman society flocked every afternoon, somewhat as we moderns throng a beach at a fashionable seaside resort.
My one consolation is that it will probably settle a little argument we had down at the seaside. The delay irritated Rose to the last point of endurance. 'The fact is, he proceeded at length, 'a week ago I received a most extraordinary letter the most impudent letter I ever read in my life. It came from that noisy, beer-drinking man who intruded upon us at the inn you remember.
But the weather grew oppressively hot, and it was plain that they could not carry out the project of remaining in town all through the autumn. Already Reuben was languishing in his zeal, when little Clarence had a sudden and alarming illness. As soon as possible, all went off to the seaside. Since his work had begun, Reuben's interest in the child had fallen off.
He looked far ahead, saw the prospective growth of the place, and laid broad plans of preparation for the future. Apart from his great services in laying out East Bridgeport, he was the author of the improvements on the water-front known as Seaside Park. The idea of such a thing occurred to him first in 1863, when he rode over the ground and observed its fitness for the purpose.
It fell out on a day in this last autumn, that I had to go down from London to a place of seaside resort, on an hour's business, accompanied by my esteemed friend Bullfinch. Let the place of seaside resort be, for the nonce, called Namelesston.
Some of the most privileged are guarded by colonies of plaster saints and Virgins that cover the whole slab; and over the handsomest Virgins and the most gaily coloured saints the soldiers have placed the glass bells that once protected the parlour clocks and wedding-wreaths in the same houses. From sad Nieuport we motored on to a little seaside colony where gaiety prevails.
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