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This afternoon they have nearly all gone for a drive in hired motor cars, but I haven't a hat here that would stay on, so I am writing to you instead, and we cross over to Trouville at five o'clock in the ordinary boat, as it is too rough for the Sauterelle. Good-bye, dear Mamma, your affectionate daughter, Elizabeth. P.S. I forgot to tell you the story of the "Côte des deux Amants."
In our walk we picked up a species of locust, the sauterelle of this country, of a pale, dirty brown, and somewhat more than three inches in length. Thanks to the great cleanliness of the Hôtel de Beauveau, this was the first insect which we had as yet met with at Marseilles.
"And now," said the gallant Ferdinand, "the turn is to madame, that she should prove her fortune attend but a moment, madame, while I seek the sauterelle." This was the second method: the grasshopper was attached to the hook, and casting the line well out across the pool, Ferdinand put the rod into Greygown's hands.
We had breakfast on the Sauterelle, but it was so fine after we left Vernon, and yesterday, that we could have it each day in the bows under the awning, and so had not to wash our forks and plates. The Châteaux are so picturesque, and such woods! after you leave Rouen. Héloise did not sleep yesterday. "Antoine" talked so much, no one could really have had a comfortable nap.
Now and then you would hear a harsh voice from behind the curtain cry, "Brava, Brava," or a pair of white gloves wave from it, and begin to applaud. Bondi, or Sauterelle, when they came down to earth, curtsied and smiled, especially to those hands, before they walked up the stage again, panting and happy.
Agnès and the other maids and valets are going by train, and will meet us with the luggage at the different places we stop at each night, as the Sauterelle is too small to carry everything. I must go and get ready now, so good-bye, dear Mamma. Your affectionate daughter, Elizabeth. Yacht Sauterelle, 17th August. Dearest Mamma, I am writing as we float down the Seine, it is too enchanting.
I said it was about our journey on the Sauterelle, where, at Vernon, Monsieur de la Trémors had been so badly bitten by the fleas that they had given him silly dreams. She thought we were mad; and I overheard her presently telling her partner when she could get him to listen that no one would believe the bizarre conversations of the toqués English unless they actually heard them!
In his regime the Grasshoppers came and did their destructive work, but the French people nicknamed him "Governor Sauterelle," Grasshopper Governor, for, says the historian of this decade he was so called, "because he proved as great a destroyer within doors as the grasshoppers in the fields." Lord Selkirk had been a most generous and sympathetic founder to his Scottish Colony.
I would not go into the church: the usual smell met me at the door; so the Vicomte and Jean and I went for a walk, and now we are just going to start on the Sauterelle again, and this must be posted. I have managed to write it on my knee, sitting on a stone bench outside the inn door. Good-bye, dear Mamma, with love from your affectionate daughter, Elizabeth. Hotel Frascati, Havre,
The two friends were simply gasping with excitement at the idea of my having gone on the Sauterelle. They asked me endless questions, and giggled, and I did tell them some things! They asked also about England, and was it really true that when we went to a ball we stayed with our danseurs till the next dance? I said I had not been to a ball yet, but had always heard that is what one did.
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