"We find Europe infested with Americans," she continued.

"It disturbs one's impressions so.

And the travelling American invariably belongs to the very _least_ desirable class." "Now I shouldn't have thought so," said the Senator, with intentional humour.

But it was lost upon Miss Bingham.
"Well, if you like them," said the other one, "you'd better go in the coach." The Senator lifted his hat.

"Madam," he said, "I thank you for giving to me and mine the privilege of visiting a very questionable scene of the past in the very best society of the present." And as the guide was perspiring more and more impatiently, we got in.
For some moments the Senator sat in silence, reflecting upon this sentiment, with an occasionally heaving breast.