On his way he wrote from Marseilles to his mother; and, after telling her of the sights and scenes he has witnessed, mentions that he will leave Marseilles "D.V. on Monday for Constantinople".

My cousin is coming to Marseilles in about three months, and he will bring them with him.

You will wait at Marseilles for me.

They arrived at Marseilles on the 4th of the Eighth Month, and passed through France as rapidly as his state would allow.

In talking this over with his wife, he said: "I consider it a duty to go to Marseilles with him.

And worse than all, arriving at Marseilles at half-past twelve, there was no train for Plassans until twenty minutes past three.

At Leghorn I took a passage for Marseille in a xebeque, but after sailing for three days the weather proved very unfavourable, and I landed at Spezia and proceeded by Genoa and the Cornici Road to Marseille.

From June 16th to August 5th I was, with my son Wilfrid, on an expedition to South Italy and Sicily: on our return from Sicily, we remained for three days ill at Marseilles from a touch of malaria.

I'm glad, after all, I didn't go back from Marseilles by train.

He wandered through Marseilles as at other times, passing the first hours of the evening on the terraces of the Cannebière.

" After a three days' rest in Avignon, visiting the palace of the Popes and other objects of interest, and being quite charmed with the city as a whole and with the Hôtel de l'Europe in particular, the little party left for Marseilles by way of Aix.

At twelve o'clock on the morning of the 21st of September, we were informed that the English Government-mails had not arrived, and that the probabilities were in favour of their not reaching Marseilles until five o'clock; in which event, the steamer could not leave the harbour that night.

He landed at Marseilles towards the end of September, travelled to his home, and a fortnight later came up from Sussex for a few days to London.