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Rainham identified spots for them as the prospect widened, naming sea-girt Mortola with its snug château, Mentone lying placidly with its two bays in the westering sun, and, now and again, notorious peaks of the Alpes Maritimes which bounded the horizon beyond. At the frontier bridge of St. Louis, where they alighted to meet the requirements of the Douane, even Mrs.
It was the Cornice Road that he followed the broad white road that skirts the sea at the foot of the Alpes Maritimes. As far as Monte Carlo, he had walked it alone many the time. But he had never walked it with her, so it was a new road. It was a new world too, and as far as he was concerned there was no war.
The red rocks and the dwarf pines of the Esterel coves, against which an azure sea lapped in soft caress.... Cannes with its far-flung draperies of white villas.... The proud solemnity of the Alpes Maritimes thrusting up to the snow-line and glinting white against the sun.... Fairy bungalows nesting in tropic gardens and waving welcome with their palm-fronds to the rushing train.... The Baie des Anges laughing with sky and hills.... The many-tunnelled cliff-route from Villefranche to Cap D'Ail, where moments of darkness tease one to longing for the sight of the azure coves dotted with white-winged yachts and foam-slashed motor-boats.... Europe's silken, jewelled fringe!
Even to-day the presence of superannuated Dutch warships and quaint craft from China and the Malay islands relieves the monotony of the vast hulls of the steamships of the British India, the Messageries Maritimes, and the Netherlands India Companies. I was agreeably surprised at the size and convenience of the station at Tanjong Priok.
Late at night we depart, amid the glare and music of a violent thunder-storm, and in the morning wake up in the roadstead of Trebizond. To fully realize the difference between mock-civilization and the genuine article, one cannot do better than to transfer from a Russian Caspian steamer to a Messageries Maritimes.
Ogier strongly suspected Henfrey of firing the shot, but was, nevertheless, determined to remain inactive and leave the matter to the Prefecture of the Department of Alpes Maritimes. Hence the reason that the well-dressed Frenchman lounged in the hall of the hotel pretending to read the "Phare du Littoral."
He got up from his chair, put down his book, and was half-way across the room when the door opened and Jack Glover came in, followed by the detective. It was the Frenchman who spoke. "M'sieur Briggerland, I have a warrant from the Préfect of the Alpes Maritimes for your arrest." "My arrest?" spluttered the dark man, his teeth chattering. "What what is the charge?"
"It is because the war is over that I have left my own country, signor," answered Giuseppe. "I fought against Austria on the sea; but now now Italy is an unhappy place no home for heroes at present. I am not a common man. I have a great ancestry the Doria of Dolceaqua in the Alpes Maritimes. You have heard of the Doria?" "I'm afraid not history isn't my strong suit."
Works of John Adams, vol. viii. p. 290. Washington's Correspondence, 1787, edited by W.C. Ford, vol. viii. pp. 159, 160, 254. Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, Jan. 28, 1791, p. 20. Chalmers, Opinions, p. 32. Jurien de la Gravière, Guerres Maritimes, Paris, 1847, vol. ii. p. 238. Canada, Newfoundland, Bermuda, etc. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 303. p. 288.
This work, written in a pleasing style, gives important information on the manners and natural history of this most interesting part of Switzerland. Voyage dans l'Oberland Bernois. Par J.R. Wyss. Leipsic, 1818. 8vo. This work, translated from the German, is chiefly picturesque. Fodere, Voyage aux Alpes Maritimes. Paris, 1820. 2 vols. 8vo.
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