There was a great deal of politeness and good feeling, and if they were not Capi and Remi and Vitalis in "_Sans Famille_," it was merely because their circumstances were different.
As we stood looking at the Eiffel Tower, poppa said he thought if he were in my place he wouldn't describe it.

"It's old news," he said, "and there's nothing the general public dislike so much as that.

Every hotel-porter in Chicago knows that it's three hundred metres high, and that you can see through it all the way up.

There it is, and I feel as if I'd passed my boyhood in its shadow.

That way I must say it's a disappointment.