Excerpt from Felicity in France

From Newhaven to Dieppe. From England to France. From the sordid ugliness and unspeakable dreariness of the English sea-coast town, to the bright, picturesque liveliness of the old French seaport. Between the two a gulf is fixed, a gulf that must be crossed on a narrow inconvenient little screw steamer which in bad weather - and no day in the year is secure against bad weather - pitches, rolls and tosses, till soul and body are nearly wrenched asunder. This is the price you must pay if you would cross to Normandy or Brittany.

On a calm summer's night, however, one may forget the hard unyielding deck chair or narrow wooden seat, and the absence of cushion or pillow, not to be had on deck for love or money, to soften the rigours of the journey. There is at least fresh air to breathe, the star-lit sky overhead, the deep, still waters around flecked with a white track of foam as the boat cuts her way through.

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