People seemed to eat cauliflower without distinguishing the Denmark variety from the Oldenburg, and few, if any, knew Silesian bacon even when they tasted it.

And when they took the Duke out twenty-five miles into what was called the country, there were still no turnips, but only real estate, and railway embankments, and advertising signs; so that altogether the obvious and visible decline of American agriculture in what should have been its leading centre saddened the Duke's heart.

Thus the Duke passed four gloomy days.
Agriculture vexed him, and still more, of course, the money concerns which had brought him to America.
Money is a troublesome thing.

But it has got to be thought about even by those who were not brought up to it.

If, on account of money matters, one has been driven to come over to America in the hope of borrowing money, the awkwardness of how to go about it naturally makes one gloomy and preoccupied.