Date: 1870
Certainly the temper of the day shifts ; but the smiles come far the seldom est, and its frowns and angry tears are most reliable.  By seven o'clock pedestrians began to walk along the promenade, close-buttoned against the blast ; later, a single bathing-machine got under way, by means of a horse, and travelled forth seaward ; but within what distance it finds the invisible margin I cannot say, — at all events, it looks like a dreary journey.  Just now I saw a sea-gull, wheeling on the blast, close in towards the promenade.