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Updated: September 11, 2025
Both Lieutenant Dowell and George Ingouville received the Victoria Cross. It would be scarcely interesting or useful to describe the numberless performances of the boats of the fleets in destroying barracks, stores, and shipping. It was a stern though painful necessity which demanded this mode of proceeding.
Instead of rising to an actual peak, the hill ends abruptly in a cliff. These half-deserted slopes of Ingouville form a striking contrast to the terraces of fine villas which overlook the valley of the Seine. Is the wind on this side too strong for vegetation? Do the merchants shrink from the cost of terracing it?
Such was the general state of things, due chiefly to accident, when on Sunday morning Canalis and La Briere arrived, with a courier in advance, at the villa of Madame Amaury. This assemblage of suitors made the wits of the Bourse remark that, thanks to Mademoiselle Mignon, rents would rise at Ingouville.
Though you did not make the conquest of a woman, you have at least gained faithful friends at Ingouville if you will deign to accord us that title." This little discourse, which Modeste had carefully thought over, was said with so much charm of soul that the tears came to the grand equerry's eyes; he seized her hand and kissed it.
His newly-engraved private card read thus: 'J. B. de Véron, Mon Séjour, Ingouville. Mon Séjour was a charming suburban domicile, situate upon the Côte, as it is usually termed-a sloping eminence on the north of Le Havre, which it commands, and now dotted with similar residences, but at the period we are writing of, very sparsely built upon.
"Thousands of schemes had been planned on the strength of this expected return; we were even to buy a little house with my uncle's money a little place in the country near Ingouville. In fact, I wouldn't swear that my father had not already begun negotiations. "The elder of my sisters was then twenty-eight, the other twenty-six. They were not yet married, and that was a great grief to every one.
These things, insignificant in the eyes of a man who for four years had been accustomed to the unbridled luxury of the Indies and of the English merchants at Canton, were the subject of much comment among the business men of Havre and the inhabitants of Ingouville and Graville.
Ingouville is to Havre what Montmartre is to Paris, a high hill at the foot of which the city lies; with this difference, that the hill and the city are surrounded by the sea and the Seine, that Havre is helplessly circumscribed by enclosing fortifications, and, in short, that the mouth of the river, the harbor, and the docks present a very different aspect from the fifty thousand houses of Paris.
The caustic that was slowly eating into her heart lay beneath a stone in the little graveyard of Ingouville, on which was inscribed: Died aged twenty-two. Pray for her. This inscription is to the young girl whom it covered what many another epitaph has been for the dead lying beneath them, a table of contents to a hidden book.
At the foot of Montmartre an ocean of slate roofs lies in motionless blue billows; at Ingouville the sea is like the same roofs stirred by the wind.
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