It is too ridiculously and uncomfortably nice.

Fancy a lady always dressed throughout the day in her best evening-party dress, and say if she could move about with that ease which she would like.

Such, however, must be the feeling of the inhabitants of Broek; they must be in perpetual fear, not only of soiling or deranging their clothes merely, but their very streets every step they take.

But good-bye to Broek.

I would not have missed seeing it but do not care to see it again." Holland, which he had never visited before, interested him greatly, but he could not help saying: "One feels in Holland like being in a ship, constantly liable to spring a leak." Hamburg he found more to his taste:-- "_September 26._ Hamburg, you may remember, was nearly destroyed by fire in 1842.