Aunt Mary had a castor of it, that I can remember when I was a child; it went into the kitchen long before I grew up.
Would a joke like that console you for the loss of Italy ?" "It would go far to do it.

And as a German-Silver Wedding Journey, it's certainly been very complete." "What do you mean ?" "It's given us a representative variety of German cities.

First we had Hamburg, you know, a great modern commercial centre." "Yes! Go on!" "Then we had Leipsic, the academic." "Yes!" "Then Carlsbad, the supreme type of a German health resort; then Nuremberg, the mediaeval; then Anspach, the extinct princely capital; then Wurzburg, the ecclesiastical rococo; then Weimar, for the literature of a great epoch; then imperial Berlin; then Frankfort, the memory of the old free city; then Dusseldorf, the centre of the most poignant personal interest in the world--I don't see how we could have done better, if we'd planned it all, and not acted from successive impulses." "It's been grand; it's been perfect! As German-Silver Wedding Journey it's perfect--it seems as if it had been ordered! But I will never let you give up Holland! No, we will go this afternoon, and when I get to Schevleningen, I'll go to bed, and stay there, till you've completed your after-cure." "Do you think that will be wildly gay for the convalescent ?" She suddenly began to cry.

"Oh, dearest, what shall we do?
I feel perfectly broken down.

I'm afraid I'm going to be sick--and away from home! How could you ever let me overdo, so ?" She put her handkerchief to her eyes, and turned her face into the sofa pillow.
This was rather hard upon him, whom her vivid energy and inextinguishable interest had not permitted a moment's respite from pleasure since they left Carlsbad.