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Updated: July 28, 2025
Pleasure-boats were gliding up and down; a gay party went by, dancing on the deck of a luxurious barge to the music of a string-band; a young man skimmed the surface in a skiff, another punted two girls along; and people walked on the banks or sat about under the trees, and children played and they were all free! Suddenly Beth burst into tears. Miss Smallwood questioned her.
Nay, the very pleasure-boats on the sunny waves declared the glory of somebody's soap, of somebody's purgatives. 'I'll make that place one of the biggest advertising stations in England see if I don't! You remember the caves? I'm going to have them lighted with electricity, and painted all round with advertisements of the most artistic kind. 'What a brilliant idea!
Large steamers and sailing vessels, of every description, are being loaded and discharged; powerful steam-hoists in operation on the docks; immense quantities of freight and merchandise in process of transfer to and from the railroad cars; and bustle everywhere; while hundreds of pleasure-boats and small crafts, of every conceivable variety, may be seen as far as the eye can reach.
But if you find you can't work that traverse, just you slip down to Ajaccio some quiet night; there's a whole fleet of pleasure-boats of all sorts and sizes there; just jump aboard one of 'em, slip your moorings, and make a coasting v'yage of it. They're most of 'em capital sea-boats, and you know a good model when you see one by this time, I s'pose.
I remember, when we came into L'Isle Adam, for instance, how we met dozens of pleasure-boats outing it for the afternoon, and there was nothing to distinguish the true voyager from the amateur, except, perhaps, the filthy condition of my sail. The company in one boat actually thought they recognised me for a neighbour. Was there ever anything more wounding? All the romance had come down to that.
Found capital place for studying boats not far from the Pont d'Iena." "Went round by Bois to Rothschild's, till I came to bridge of St. Cloud and to the house lovely play of lights on the water and upon the heights." "In afternoon rode as far as Argenteuil, and saw Texier's boat-building establishment there, and the fleet of pleasure-boats."
This day come the King's pleasure-boats from Calais, with the Dunkirke money, being 400,000 pistolles. 22nd. This day Mr. Moore told me, that for certain the Queene- Mother is married to my Lord St. Albans, and he is like to be made Lord Treasurer. News that Sir J. Lawson hath made up a peace now with Tunis and Tripoli, as well as Argiers, by which he will come home very highly honoured. 23rd.
Widdowson gazed at the pleasure-boats lying below on the strand, and said diffidently, 'Would you care to go on the river? The proposal was so unexpected that Monica looked up with a startled air. She had not thought of the man as likely to offer any kind of amusement. 'It would be pleasant, I think, he added. 'The tide is still running up.
I thank you, and Emma desires to thank you also, for your kindness in providing us with ample means for taking our little trip. It is beautiful weather today; the sea is calm, and the pleasure-boats are out. We do not of course expect to see you here. But if you do, by any chance, overcome your objection to moving out of London, I have a little request to make.
This day come the King's pleasure-boats from Calais, with the Dunkirk money, being 400,000 pistolles. 22nd. This morning, from some difference between my wife and Sarah, her maid, my wife and I fell out cruelly, to my great discontent.
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