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King observed a striking instance of this fact on the Corniche road, where a drain, about 2.5 feet wide and 9 inches deep, had been made to catch the surface drainage from the adjoining hill-side. The bottom of this drain was covered for a distance of several hundred yards, to a depth of from 1.5 to 3 inches, by a layer of broken castings, still retaining their characteristic shape.
Though silent thought with those we love is sweet, The heart finds every meeting incomplete; And with the dearest there must sometimes be The wide and lonely silence of the sea. There are three ways of reaching Monaco from Nice by sea, by rail, and by carriage viâ the Corniche road. This last is the longest, but by far the most interesting route.
At first, immediately after the ceremony, he would leave with his wife to pass the winter in the South, where she could be confined. He knew a pretty place in the Corniche, near Antibes, where he should not lose his time, as he could bring back marine and landscape sketches. But it would not be until the next winter that he would entirely arrange his life.
After that it was impossible to feign ignorance as to the interior workings and deviltries of motor cars. The Upper Corniche Road is perhaps the most charming driveway of the world and I say this with due reverence to Amalfi.
"I had the very same experience last Sunday, when Phillippe the grocer's boy at the corner, you know walked along the Corniche Road with a chit of a girl out of a shop. She thinks herself better than we are because she stands behind a counter, and I am sure she made eyes at Phillippe one day when his master sent him there on an errand." "Phillippe must have bad taste," broke in Edith.
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