Excerpt from The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of Travel in a Land of Woman, Wine and Song, to Which Are Appended Historical, Literary, and Political Sketches, Specimens of the National Music, and a Compendious Bibliography
There were four of us - two Frenchmen, an Italian, and an Englishman. We had ridden from Damascus to Baalbek, and had seen the ruins; after dinner, we were lying on heaps of cushions on the floor, in a hostelry little known to Europeans. For some minutes the bubbling of our narghiles was the only sound that broke the stillness of the night. Then the excuirassier spoke out in a strong voice - the voice of a man accustomed to command - "Gentlemen! I propose that we solemnly pass a vote of censure on the late M. de Lamartine," "Bravo!" was our unanimous cry; and the vote was carried, nemine contrcidicente. A rider was added, to the effect that poets should be discouraged from writing books of travel.
"Surely a strange proceeding!"
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