I should have been a fly in a microscope, feeling my legs and arms counted on all sides, and receiving no comfort from the scientific results.

So, you see, we 'gave it up' and came here in a sort of despair, meaning to take the railroad to Dieppe; when lo! our examining forces find that the place here is very tenable, and we take a house close to the sea (though the view is interrupted) in a green garden, and quite away from a suggestion of streets and commerce.

The bathing is good, we have a post-office and reading-rooms at our elbow, and nothing distracting of any kind.

The house is large and airy, and our two families are lodged in separate apartments, though we meet at dinner in our dining-room.

Certainly the country immediately around Havre is not pretty, but we came for the sea after all, and the sea is open and satisfactory.