ten o'clock
I had my guide-book , and I said _ auberge _ ; and we came to the oddest , most outlandish , and old-fashioned establishment that ever escaped from one of Julia Nathalie woman 's novels . And here I am . And the reason , my dear Mrs. Barthow , that I take to-day to write to you , you and the Colonel will now understand . You see it was only ten o'clock when I got here ; then I went to walk , many _ enfans terribles _ following respectfully ; then I came home , and ate the funny refection ; then I got a nap ; then I went to walk again , and made a little sketch in the churchyard : and this time , one of the children brought up her mother , a funny Norman woman , in a delicious costume , -- I have a sketch of another just like her , -- and she dropped a courtesy , and in a very mild _ patois _ said she hoped the children did not trouble madame . And I said , `` Oh , no ! '' and found a sugar-plum for the child and showed my sketch to the woman ; and she said she supposed madame was _ Anglaise _ . I said I was not _ Anglaise _ , -- and here the story begins ; for I said I was _ Americaine _ .