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There was no means of getting either railroad time table. I looked 
on the only way-map I could find of France, and found that Dieppe 
was the nearest accessible point and that there was RR. communi- 
cation between the two places. So I started Sunday afternoon for 
London to take the Dieppe boat—I got to London at 12 P. M.— 
went to bed—got up at 5, breakfasted, took the 6 A. M. train for 
Dieppe, got there about 2 P. M. asked the R R man what was the 
proper way to go to Falaise—nobody seemed to know but on the 
whole they seemed to think the only way was to take the train for 
Havre, so I took that—got to Havre at 12 P M—slept there—took 
the boat for Honfleur at 8.30 the next morning and finally arrived at 
Falaise at about 5 P. M. Distance about I should think 50 miles— 
the French R R. do not make connections, on the contrary they 
evidently think that time is of no consequence— On arriving at 
Falaise I got a boy to show me the house of M. Bertrand the “ priseur” 
—found him and found to my disgust that the sale had been deferred 
to the middle of September—I went to the chateau Lafresnaye, which 
is very pretty—saw Madame and the two Misses Lafresnaye—told 
them in as good French as I could muster and as politely as it was 
possible that it was a humbug and a mistake to put off the sale— 
which they assured me had been done to satisfy some other parties. 
