. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. This caused me afterwardsmuch trouble in correspondence, and to this day I have not been able to procure theMinisters despatch, although the Prefect had explicit permission from the War Officeto communicate it to me. 2 All I regret about the gendarmes who arrested us at Pontailler is that they did notwear their cocked hats. They carried revolvers, it is true, which might have beenmore efficacious weapons, but a gendarme without his cocked hat is hardly a completegendarme. Mr. Pennell wanted to add this imposing
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. This caused me afterwardsmuch trouble in correspondence, and to this day I have not been able to procure theMinisters despatch, although the Prefect had explicit permission from the War Officeto communicate it to me. 2 All I regret about the gendarmes who arrested us at Pontailler is that they did notwear their cocked hats. They carried revolvers, it is true, which might have beenmore efficacious weapons, but a gendarme without his cocked hat is hardly a completegendarme. Mr. Pennell wanted to add this imposing ornament in a sketch of ourarrest, but I insisted that the drawing ought to be historical. 166 The Saone. saluted us and smiled upon us, oh ! so sweetly. Two quotationsrushed into my mind together, one was from Macaulays Tory:— Right graciously he smiled on us, the other was from a French ditty :— Et avec un sourire De ravissante douceur. The church of St. Jean de Losne which Mr. Pennell sketched,is to my taste the most picturesque—I do not say the finest—on P% A ^O r\. II-. ^fefe ! ^l:S:? ^I^f
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