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Updated: May 11, 2025
The wind seems rather fresh, but they say that it will drop towards the evening. I hope they are not deceiving us. We are disappointed with Ostend. We thought that Ostend would be gay and crowded. We thought that there would be bands and theatres and concerts, and busy table-d'hotes, and lively sands, and thronged parades, and pretty girls at Ostend.
During his mourning, Godefroid tried the various chances and distractions of Paris; he dined at table-d'hotes; he made acquaintances heedlessly; he sought society, with no result but that of increasing his expenditures.
The tiresome life of railroads and table-d'hotes began for him. He would be dragged about from city to city, like a bag of wheat or a cask of wine.
Already unprincipled in no ordinary degree, the society of the cafés and table-d'hôtes at Lucca completed his corruption.
The tiresome life of railroads and table-d'hotes began for him. He would be dragged about from city to city, like a bag of wheat or a cask of wine.
Byron could sleep on the deck of a sailing vessel wrapped in his cloak and feel none the worse for it; his well-braced mind and aspiring spirit soared above all bodily discomforts; his thoughts were engrossed with the mighty teachings of time; he was able to lose himself in glorious reveries on the lessons of the past and the possibilities of the future; the attitude of the inspired Thinker as well as Poet was his, and a crust of bread and cheese served him as sufficiently on his journeyings among the then unspoilt valleys and mountains of Switzerland as the warm, greasy, indigestible fare of the elaborate table-d'hotes at Lucerne and Interlaken serve us now.
The tiresome life of railroads and table-d'hotes began for him. He would be dragged about from city to city, like a bag of wheat or a cask of wine.
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