They Are Very Alert, The Modern
Pompeians, To Catch The Note Of National Character, And I Saw One Of
Them Pursuing An Elderly American With A Spread Of Hat-Pins, Primarily
Two Francs Each, And With The Appeal, Evidently Studied From Some Fair
American Girl:
"Buy it, Poppa!
Six for one franc. Oh, Poppa, buy it!"
I had again lavished my substance upon first-class tickets, and so had
my Utah friend, who expounded his philosophy of travel as we managed to
secure a first-class carriage. "When I can't go first-class in Italy,
I'll go home." I promptly and proudly agreed with him, but I concealed
my morning's experience of the fact that in Italy you may sometimes go
second class when you have paid first. I agreed with him, however, in
not minding the plunder of Italian travel, since, with all the
extortions, it would come to a third less than you expected to spend.
His was the true American spirit.
VI
ROMAN HOLIDAYS
I
HOTELS, PENSIONS, AND APARTMENTS
"Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?" the traveller asks rather
anxiously than defiantly when he finds himself a stranger in a strange
place, and he is apt to add, if he has not written or wired ahead to
some specific hotel, "Which of mine inns shall I take mine ease in?" He
is the more puzzled to choose the more inns there are to choose from,
and his difficulty is enhanced if he has not considered that some of his
inns may be full or may be too dear, and yet others undesirable.
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