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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

CHAPTER V
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'What shall I have the honor of showing you ?' they say.
"Our chambermaid, at our lodgings, thanks us every time we speak to her.
"I feel ashamed to reach a four-penny piece to a stout coachman who touches his hat and begs me to remember him.

Sometimes I am ready to say, 'How can I forget you, when you have hung around me so closely for half an hour ?' "Our waiter at the Adelphi Hotel, at Liverpool, was a very respectable middle-aged man, with a white neck-cloth; he looked like a Methodist parson.

He waited upon us for five days with great gravity, and then another waiter told us that we could give our waiter what we pleased.

We were charged L1 for 'attendance' in the bill, but I very innocently gave half as much more, as fee to the 'parson,' "August 14.

To-day we took a brougham and drove around for hours.


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