They had travelled by sea, because the voyage was recommended to Mary, so that there was little to relate beyond sufferings, in the first place, and the mishaps common to the case, and which Mr. Glentworth exceedingly lamented, on his young wife's behalf, in a letter addressed to Mr. Penrhyn. Having arrived at Marseilles before the heats were excessive, he spoke in favourable terms of the health of all, and said that, as in all, and said that, as in all probability, his affairs would be soon arranged, it was his full intention to take the ladies into Italy, as they had a great desire to see Rome and Florence; beyond that he thought they would not wish to go; and, being completely sick of the sea, would return through France, and, probably, stop a few weeks at Paris, where, perhaps, Lady Anne and her two youngest daughters would meet them. Helen was in absolute transports at the thoughts of a trip to Paris, but Georgiana seemed to think little of it. She talked very learnedly of the blue depths of the Mediterranean, the grandeur of the vast Atlantic, and surprised her sisters exceedingly by the passion she evinced, all at once, for the sea, which she was wont to dislike at Brighton; they did not, in the slightest degree, suppose that she might, in truth, have exclaimed with the beloved of Oronooka:—
"The little spot of ground he stands upon
Is more to me than the extended plains
Of earth's most mighty empire!"
And, alas! the emphatic he would soon be again upon
