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Convenient for crossing to the Continent too, when he took his yearly cure at Aix or at Vichy, or went south for a couple of months, as last winter for instance, to Cette, Montpelier and across, by Pau, to the Atlantic seaboard at St. Sebastian, Biarritz, and Bayonne. "When my father travels I go with him," Damaris said, raising her head and looking at the young man with proud, deliberate eyes.
Striking scenic effects came in here and there, the distant summits of the Pyrenees being visible beyond the mountains of Navarre. A drive of five miles from Bayonne took us to Biarritz, situated a little southwest of the old city, at the lower part of the Bay of Biscay, being the Newport of southern France.
Whereupon the inhabitants of Biarritz met in the open air, on the eighth of May, to the number of one hundred and fifty; approved of the conduct of the Baillie in rejecting Arnauld, made a subscription, and gave all power to their lawyers to defend the cause of the pure race against Etienne Arnauld "that stranger," who, having married a girl of Cagot blood, ought also to be expelled from the holy places.
France was mobilizing. Perhaps already the axe had fallen. Held by the universal anxiety, Stefan and Felicity had lingered on in Paris after her return from Biarritz, instead of traveling to Brittany as they had planned. Stefan had another reason for remaining, which he had not imparted to Felicity. He was waiting for Mary's letter.
The image returned to him, by way of contrast, of Dorsenne, alert and foppish, the dandy of literature, so gayly a scoffer and a sophist, to whom antique and venerable Rome was only a city of pleasure, a cosmopolis more paradoxical than Florence, Nice, Biarritz, St. Moritz, than such and such other cities of international winter and summer.
Her father, himself born in the Philippines, the son of a wealthy merchant of Singapore, had married a member of the Genato family of Manila. At their villa in Biarritz, and again in their home in Belgium, Rizal was a guest later, for Mr. Baustead had taken a great liking to him.
We may expect one of these days to hear of its having been taken down and coined into shining doubloons. From Madrid to Burgos. Through a Barren Country. The Cathedral of Burgos. Monastery of Miraflores. Local Pictures. A Spanish Inn. Convent of Las Huelgas. From Burgos to San Sebastian. Northern Spain. A Spanish Watering Place. Bayonne. Lower Pyrenees. Biarritz. A Basque Postilion.
We generally have a mental image beforehand of a place we think of going to, and I supposed I had a tolerably vivid prevision of Biarritz. I don't know why, but I had a singular sense of having been there; the name always seemed to me expressive.
At Monte Carlo the setting is also beautiful, ravishingly beautiful, but the architecture, the terrace, Monaco's rock, and all the rest combine to make the pleasing "ensemble." At Biarritz the architecture of its Casino and the great hotels is not of an epoch-making beauty, neither are they so delightfully placed. It is the surrounding stage setting that is so lovely.
The tiny railway from Bayonne to Biarritz transported half a million travelers twenty years ago, and a million and a half, or nearly that number, in 1903; the rest, being millionaires, or gypsies, came in automobiles or caravans. These figures tell eloquently of the prosperity of this "villégiature impériale." The great beauty of Biarritz is its setting.
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