The French style of cookery differs from ours, but they eat just as much, and although they may not, as a rule, be as broad and heavy as Englishmen, that is simply a characteristic of race; the Latin peoples are of slighter build than the Teutonic.

As to their food, you know that the Romans, who were certainly judges of good living, considered the snail a great luxury, and I dare say ate frogs too.

A gentleman who had made the grand tour told me that he had tasted them in Paris and found them very delicate eating.

You may not like the living quite at first, but you will soon get over that, and once accustomed to it you will like it quite as well as our solid joints.

My principal objection to your going lies quite in another direction.
Public opinion in France is much disturbed.