Worthing, 6 August 1884 
48 Marine Parade 

My dear Laura, 

Here we are and here is our address in as primitive a place as the 
British sea-side will admit of 77’ — the first lodgings we took we had 
to leave because the old Madam objected to smoking!! 

No Lager Beer as yet, but Percy is hunting some up at Brighton — 
as soon as that is to hand I will try whether I can digest Leroy- 
Beaulieu 77°; it is blazing hot but fine continental heat and sea- 
breeze, the Channel is right before our noses but at ebbtide about '/, 
mile away. Pumps and Nim just come in for beer, they say it is so hot 
they cannot stand it outside any longer and the house is indeed 
cooler. 

Why, after all ces pauvres parisiens* will be done out of their share of 
cholera! What a shame after all their preparations. 

Nim just says she hopes she has come into a fortune on July 31st in 
that grand drawing in Paris. Ifso, you are to telegraph at once to the 
Baroness de Demuth at the above address, as she wants to come out 
with a grand treat. 

I am lazy and have so many letters to write! So I hope I shall have 
good news from Paul, that is to say that the great Leroy-Beaulieu is 
not in such a hurry to pocket his thrashing.° 

Anyhow, I must take beneftcium caloris© and conclude. 

The whole lot send any amount of loves, ditto 

Yours affectionately,