She has now twelve thousand inhabitants, some eleven thousand of whom were in the streets when, the tub having at length crawled back with us, we walked through them to the station.
Odd how one nation's prettiness is another's grotesque.

My companion was wearing one of those comely straw hats trimmed with roses which we call Early Victorian, and which the hot summer of 1904 brought into fashion again on account of their peculiar suitability to keep off the sun.

In England we think them becoming; upon certain heads they are charming.

But no head must wear such a hat at Gorcum unless it would court disaster.

The town is gay and spruce, bright as a new pin; the people are outrageous.