The Peculiar
Step To Which I Allude Is To Be Seen Often On The Boulevards In
Paris.
It is to be seen more often in second-rate French towns,
and among fourth-rate French women.
Of all signs in women
betokening vulgarity, bad taste, and aptitude to bad morals, it is
the surest. And this is the gait of going which American mothers -
some American mothers I should say - love to teach their daughters!
As a comedy at a hotel it is very delightful, but in private life I
should object to it.
To me Newport could never be a place charming by reason of its own
charms. That it is a very pleasant place when it is full of people
and the people are in spirits and happy, I do not doubt. But then
the visitors would bring, as far as I am concerned, the
pleasantness with them. The coast is not fine. To those who know
the best portions of the coast of Wales or Cornwall - or better
still, the western coast of Ireland, of Clare and Kerry for
instance - it would not be in any way remarkable. It is by no means
equal to Dieppe or Biarritz, and not to be talked of in the same
breath with Spezzia. The hotels, too, are all built away from the
sea; so that one cannot sit and watch the play of the waves from
one's windows. Nor are there pleasant rambling paths down among
the rocks, and from one short strand to another.
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