02 Look in detail at this extract from lines 9 to 19 of the Source: The hotel and its bright tan prayer rug of a beach were one. In the early
morning the distant image of Cannes, the pink and cream of old
fortifications, the purple Alp that bounded Italy, were cast across the water
and lay quavering in the ripples and rings sent up by sea-plants through
the clear shallows. Before eight a man came down to the beach in a blue
bathrobe and with much preliminary application to his person of the chilly
water, and much grunting and loud breathing, floundered a minute in the
sea. When he had gone, beach and bay were quiet for an hour.
Merchantmen crawled westward on the horizon; bus boys shouted in the
hotel court; the dew dried upon the pines. In another hour the horns of
motors began to blow down from the winding road along the low range
of the Maures, which separates the shoreline from true Provençal France.
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