A Voyage of Consolation
d advertising himself. If you analyse it, it's a mean thing to do, for it's no more a virtue to be born American than a fault to be born anything els
Momma and I thought it rather noble of him and resolved to live up to it if possible, but when he brought forth a large packet of hotel coupons, guaranteed to produce everything, includin
y!" momma ejaculated. "Were
nd I understand it's a popular, sensible way of travelling. I told the young man that the one thing
ly, looking at the paper books of tickets, held together by a
zerland honey with your breakfast," the Senator responded firmly. "I never made a more interesting purchase.
matic possibilities," I rem
say, 'Whatever happens to the world, I am determined to have my bed, breakfast, lunc
it, Augusta. It's remarkably, pictorially cheap." The Senator put the little books in their
mean. The inexpensiveness of Europe," he continued, "is
in him up to this date, and I congratulated him warmly upon its appearance. I believe it is inherent in primitive tribes and in all Englishmen, but
e we got over. Dieppe lay behind us, and momma at the window declared that she could hardly believe she was looking out at Normandy. Momma at the window was enjoying h
lovely to see them standing up in that stiff,
to the window, but disco
, Augusta?"
Aren't you awfully disappoint
enjoying
the poplar feature of the scenery, and returned to his we
pposed I should see them doing it! And r
" I repeated, searc
l in that nice moderate shade of blue-electric, shouldn't you call it?
d incense into the opening exercises of the public schools. I've read eleven different accounts of a battle in Korea, and an article on the fauna and flora of Beluchistan, very well written. And I see it's stated, on good authority, that the Queen drove out
protested, "from Chicago, too. A w
enator with sarcasm. "'Movements of Cereals!' Gives you a great idea of
Mayor, or Jimmy Fagan?" I inqu
eem to have a
ot the Pos
not there,
Why talk of Chicago? Mr. McConnell and Mr. Fagan are all very well at home, but now that
as far as I'm concerned I'm afraid it couldn't be done-at all permanently. There's too much involved. But I see what you mean about tur
the other window to the appreciation of the scenery, and I felt, as I took o
o exclaim, "you mustn't look over my shoul
d only describe it as it is! The ruined
ide the Angelus comes pealing-or stealing,"
he women toilers in the sunset fields garnering up the golden grain. Yo
. "But I suppose the public won't know
melling-bottle, and looked out of th
Norman cows standing knee-deep in the qui
ust his hands in his pockets, and his feet out in front of him in a manner which expressed absolute dissent. When momma said she thought
t I'm perfectly certain I've heard of the poplars and the women field labourers of Normandy somewhere before. She doesn't do it on purpose"-the Senator inclined his head with deprecation toward the sleeping form opposite, and lowered his voice-"and I don't know that I'd mention it to you
and to resent it, as a man and a brother. He spoke sadly and somewhat bitterly of the manners of the brother man who shaved him, which he found unjustifiably affable, and of the inexcusable abasement of a British railway porter if you gave him a shilling. He said he was glad to leave England, it was demoralising to live there; you lost your sense of the dignity of labour, and in the course of
f an interpreter. He is said to be found on all station platforms of importance, and I presume he's standing there waiting for
ke a nickle-in-the-slot machine, automatically arranged to open his arms to tourists presenting the right tickets, and emit conversation. When we finally detected him, by his cap, he was shifting uneasily in the midst of a crowd o
hat goes with our ticke
s place, nowheres I go." He stood at bay, so to speak, frowning fiercely as he replied,
u," said poppa, firmly, "I'
people? Immediately it open you go and show ze customs man. You got no duty
y charge on nerve tincture, please?
and eau-de-Cologne, i
would speak more slowly. There's no cause for excitement. From here
ll! All ze same it is zat door beside
ng, my friend," he added, as the interpreter washed his hands of us, "you may be a n