Among French Inn Author:Charles Gibson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II IN SEARCH OF AN INN Between Havre and Rouen " I'M tired of Havre, and as we feel rested, I think we had better join your party and hunt up some... more » attractive old inn, where we can stay for a little, and make trips through this part of Normandy," said Mrs. Blodget Wilton, as we met early the next morning after our cafe au lait. " I should like nothing better," said Mr. Wilton, " only you can do the automobiling, and I will go on comfortably to fitretat with the baggage. I'm getting too old to go jolting round the country in those infernal machines." So we all started off, leaving Mr. Wilton to meet us wherever we might turn up, at fitretat, or some other more rural spot in the surrounding country. We were distributed in two automobiles, hired for several days, or longer. Mr. Wilton had promptly made a business arrangement, in writing, to cover the whole party, which was the only interest he seemed to take in the whole affair. As it was necessary to separate the count and the Frenchman, for diplomatic reasons, the former was invited to escort Mrs. Blodget Wilton. She liked him better than her daughter did, and could talk freely about the royal families of Europe, and glean from him many interesting facts, which she stored up in her brain; and then he amused her, and that in itself was an advantage. The aristocracy of Europe was her joy, and titles had always been an intoxicant which she was unable to resist. Kings were her greatest happiness. With queens she had as yet but slight acquaintance. As we dashed down the Boulevard Fran- c,ois I., she poured out her heart to the count. " You see, I really feel perfectly familiar with kings; riding on bicycles, short skirts, and all that sort of thing. I never have any trouble in writing notes to them. But emperor...« less