[A Voyage of Consolation by Sara Jeannette Duncan]@TWC D-Link bookA Voyage of Consolation CHAPTER IV 3/15
It's remarkably, pictorially cheap." The Senator put the little books in their detachable cover, snapped the elastic round them and restored the whole to his inside pocket. "You might almost say enjoyably cheap, if you know what I mean.
The inexpensiveness of Europe," he continued, "is going to be a great charm for me.
I intend to revel in it." I am always discovering points about poppa the existence of which I had not suspected.
His appreciation of the joy of small prices had been concealed in him up to this date, and I congratulated him warmly upon its appearance.
I believe it is inherent in primitive tribes and in all Englishmen, but protective tariffs and other influences are rapidly eradicating it in Americans, who should be condoled with on this point, more than they usually are. We were on our way to Paris after a miraculous escape of the Channel.
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