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"You are still rather pale," he said, "but sea-bathing will change all that. Would you like to go to the seaside next month?" Jacqueline answered with a little incredulous smile: "Oh, certainly, papa." "You don't seem very sure about it. In the first place, where shall we go? Your mamma seems to fancy Houlgate?" "Of course we must do what she wishes," replied Jacqueline, rather bitterly.
From Houlgate all the way to Trouville the country is wooded and hilly, and in the hollows, where the timber-framed farms with their thatched roofs are picturesquely arranged, there is much to attract the visitor who, wearying of the gaiety of Trouville and its imitators along the coast, wishes to find solitudes and natural surroundings.
"You are still rather pale," he said, "but sea-bathing will change all that. Would you like to go to the seaside next month?" Jacqueline answered with a little incredulous smile: "Oh, certainly, papa." "You don't seem very sure about it. In the first place, where shall we go? Your mamma seems to fancy Houlgate?" "Of course we must do what she wishes," replied Jacqueline, rather bitterly.
There is a splendid stretch of sand beach at low tide one can walk, by the shore, to Trouville or Houlgate on perfectly firm, dry sand. There are hundreds of cabins and tents, striped red and white, and umbrellas on the beach, and all day long whole families sit there.
It was late in the season, the end of September one of those bright days one sometimes has in September, when summer still lingers and the sun gives beautiful mellow tints to everything without being strong enough to make one feel the heat. The road was lovely all the way, particularly after we turned off the high road at the top of the Houlgate Hill.
And yet, patent as this singularity must have been to the dullest, it was something quite apart from any eccentricity of manner, though, heaven knows, I was soon to think him odd enough. "Isn't your description," I said gravely, thinking to suit my humour to his own, "somewhat too general? Over yonder a few miles lies Houlgate. Trouville itself is not so far, and this is the season.
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