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Updated: June 15, 2025
Miss Bird, an authoress with whom I profess myself in love, declares all the viands of Japan to be uneatable a staggering pretension. So, when the Prince of Wales's marriage was celebrated at Mentone by a dinner to the Mentonese, it was proposed to give them solid English fare roast beef and plum pudding, and no tomfoolery. Here we have either pole of the Britannic folly.
We departed from Mentone that same day after lunch. I could not remove to his hotel; he could not remove to mine, for this was Mentone. We went to Monte Carlo by road, our luggage following. We chose Monte Carlo partly because it was the nearest place, and partly because it has some of the qualities incurious, tolerant, unprovincial of a capital city.
Then he just clung to her hand; and presently, seeing that her eyes were wet, took courage enough to kiss her cheek. Trembling and fugitive indeed that first passage of their love. Not much of the conquering male in him, nor in her of the ordinary enchantress. And then they went, outwardly sober enough, riding their mules down the stony slopes back to Mentone.
The clock on the mantelpiece chimed the half hour. "I wish to goodness they would arrive," she said. "They'll be here pretty soon, I expect." "It's rather awful," said Jill, "to think of Lady Underhill racing all the way from Mentone to Paris and from Paris to Calais and from Calais to Dover and from Dover to London simply to inspect me. You can't wonder I'm nervous, Freddie."
From his first sermon at Waterbeach to his last at Mentone, the conversion of sinners was the dream of all his days. That master-passion glorified the whole man, and threw a grandeur about the common details of every day. He would cheerfully have thrown away his soul to save the souls of others. It is along this road that the Church has always marched to her most splendid triumphs.
Certain medical authorities aver that the atmosphere of Mentone used to be impregnated with microbes of phthisis; the germs of moral disease infecting the immediate neighbourhood of Nice are far more appalling. Nor are symptoms wanting of the spread of that moral disease. The municipal council of this beautiful city, like Esau, had just sold their birthright for a mess of pottage.
The wind was contrary, and we had to row all night, and in the morning the sea was so rough that we had to put in at Mentone. My two sweethearts were very sick, as also my brother and Possano, but I was perfectly well. I took the two invalids to the inn, and allowed my brother and Possano to land and refresh themselves.
And when we do arrive what then? What are your wishes? You see, I can't leave the train before we get to Mentone because of my registered luggage. He spoke appealingly. 'You can ignore us at the station, and then leave Mentone again during the day. 'As you wish, he said. 'Good-night! I whispered. 'Good-bye! And I turned to my compartment. 'Carlotta! he cried despairingly.
She held out her hand at once, yet somehow Peter felt sure that she was thankful for her veil. Her voice was pleasant, and her air the air of a great lady. She spoke French with the soft, sibilant intonation of the Spaniard. "I remember the occasion perfectly, Marquis," she admitted. "Your sister and I once shared a villa in Mentone."
Below them was a chain of glittering lights fringing the Bay of Mentone, and at their feet the lights of the Casino and Monte Carlo flared up through the scented darkness. Once more they swung upwards. The road now had become narrower and the turnings more frequent.
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