He had come to his own and his own had received him; that was the situation, a very pleasant one, which he accepted with the smiling trust that was at once the most perfect and polite of acknowledgments.
"So you do not enjoy traveling ?" said Judge Rawdon as if continuing a conversation.
"I think it the most painful way of taking pleasure, sir--that is the actual transit.

And sleeping cars and electric-lighted steamers and hotels do not mitigate the suffering.

If Dante was writing now he might depict a constant round of personally conducted tours in Purgatory.
I should think the punishment adequate for any offense.

But I like arriving at places.

New York has given me a lot of new sensations to-day, and I have forgotten the transit troubles already." He talked well and temperately, and yet Ethel could not avoid the conclusion that he was a man of positive character and uncompromising prejudices.