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After a delicious fish lunch, which included the celebrated bouillabaisse so delightfully sung by Thackeray, none of the three felt in the mood for a visit to the Prince's famous aquarium. Instead, they slowly went up to old Monaco and lazed about in the terraced gardens which overhang the sea.
After a while M. Popeau exclaimed: "I'm afraid I ought to go back now to the Hôtel de Paris, for I'm expecting a message from Paris."