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In 1600 Chauvin and Pontgravé promised to establish a colony on the St. Lawrence, and obtained from King Henry IV. a grant of the fur trade, but Chauvin died and the undertaking came to an end. In 1603 the first systematic effort to found French colonies in America was made. A company was formed at the head of which was Aymar de Chastes, governor of Dieppe, who sent over Samuel Champlain.
He repeated several times during breakfast that he had felt more emotion on hearing these chants under the dome of heaven than he had ever felt while listening to the most brilliant music. We arrived at Dieppe at six o'clock in the evening. The First Consul retired, only after having received all their felicitations, which were certainly very sincere there, as throughout all France at that time.
Dieppe yawned; perfect peace was with him a synonym for intolerable dulness. "Permit me, my dear friend," said a voice behind him, "to read you a little poem which I have beguiled my leisure by composing." He turned to find the Count behind him, holding a sheet of paper. Probably the poet had his composition by heart, for the light seemed now too dim to read by.
"From visiting the Bishop of Mesopotamia," called the Countess. "Yes," said Lucia. "I should never have got across but for you." "But tell me about yourself, Dieppe," said the Count. "You 're really in a sad state, my dear fellow." The Captain felt that the telling of his story was ticklish work.
"As we learned, however," says Barneveld, with grave simplicity; "that there was no furniture whatever in that royal abode, we thanked his Excellency, and declared that we would rather go to a tavern." After three days of repose and preparation in Dieppe, they started at dawn on their journey to Rouen, where they arrived at sundown.
A few days earlier, I happened to read in a number of the Vigie de Dieppe that a young American couple staying at Envermeu had committed suicide by taking poison and that their bodies had disappeared on the very night of the death. I hasten to Envermeu.
It is one of the main beauties of the charming village of Varengeville-sur-Mer, on the north coast of Normandy. It is now converted into a farmhouse, but in it once a celebrated privateersman of Dieppe received the ambassadors of the King of Portugual. There are still many evidences of the former dignity and grandeur in its present degradation.
A man who takes a holiday at Trouville or Dieppe is not confronted on his return with the question, 'When is your book on France going to appear? A man who betakes himself to Switzerland for the winter sports is not instantly pinned by the statement, 'I suppose your History of the Helvetian Republic is coming out this spring? Lecturing, at least my kind of lecturing, is not much more serious or meritorious than ski-ing or sea-bathing; and it happens to afford the holiday-maker far less opportunity of seeing the daily life of the people.
His companion observed, with a little vexation, with more admiration, that he seemed to have become unconscious of her presence, or, at best, to consider her only as a responsibility. The besiegers spoke no more in tones audible within the hut. Putting eye and ear alternately to the crevice between door and door-post, Dieppe saw the lantern's light and heard the crackle of paper.
Boyd's having gone to Dover, I trust that she is well again. Should she be returned, give my love to her. The black-edged paper may make you wonder at its cause. Our dear aunt Mrs. Butler died last month at Dieppe and died in Jesus. Miss Clarke is going, if she is not gone, to Italy for the winter. Believe me, affectionately yours, E.B. BARRETT.
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