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Though, therefore, we began to fear that we might be pursuing a shadow, and that either there were no gypsy camps to join, or that the excitement of such an adventure would not compensate for the desagrémens attending it, we did not at once lay aside our determination of making up to the first horde whom we should meet, and striving to become their guests for four-and-twenty hours, if not for longer.
To sleep was impossible, until by walking from morning till night I had so thoroughly tired myself that pain could not keep me awake, although I was so weak that walking was misery to me. And yet under all these desagremens I did not feel dejected in spirit; although I became unable to walk, and used to lie on the floor and roll about in agony for hours together.
The house of the Maréchal Lobau, forming the corner of the Rue de Bourbon, is the one I prefer of all those I have yet seen, although it has many désagrémens for so large an establishment as ours. But I am called to go to the review in the Champ-de-Mars, so allons for a spectacle militaire, which, I am told, is to be very fine.
Add to this the sitting, without exercise, in a wind caused by the rapidity of the motion, and the list of désagrémens is complete. I do not know the author of a description of sleighing which was quoted to me, but I admire it for its fidelity. "Do you want to know what sleighing is like? You can soon try.
"And hence," said I, "springs that universal vulgarity of idea, as well as manner, which pervades all society for nothing is so plebeian as imitation." "A very evident truism!" said Clarendon "what I lament most, is the injudicious method certain persons took to change this order of things, and diminish the desagremens of the mixture we speak of.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Australian moonlight is so bright that one may easily read a book by it of moderately-sized type. But Australian summer weather has also its désagrémens.
For Miss Silver, she did not appear again. Lord Ravenel seemed to take these slight desagremens very calmly.
The baggage arrangement except when the Company suffers under an aberration of intellect, such as I have mentioned on the Niagara route is really convenient, and the commissionaires attached to every train relieve you of all responsibility at your journey's end, by collecting your effects and transporting them to any given direction; but this solitary advantage does not counterbalance other désagrémens.
Their father cared not to hear of these trifles; he could read enough of such delightful stuff in the books of whole legions of travellers; and, as they did not note anything of this kind in their journal, we are left to suppose that they encountered the usual pleasures and desagremens which all travellers must experience on similar journeys.
The passage was so smooth that Bertha thoroughly enjoyed the strange, new existence, and found such ever-varying beauty in the gorgeous sunsets, and the resplendent moonlight, that she even forsook her berth to see "Aurora draw aside her crimson curtain of the dawn;" in short she was in an appreciating mood throughout the voyage, and her happy state allowed her to ignore all the désagreméns of the sea.