I was expecting it to be more unexpected, if you understand." Momma and I quite agreed.

It had the familiarity of a demonstration of Euclid, and to the non-engineering mind was about as interesting.

The Senator felt so well acquainted with it that he hesitated about buying a descriptive pamphlet.

"They want to sell a stranger too much information in this country," he said.

"The meanest American intelligence is equal to stepping into an elevator and stepping out again." But he bought one nevertheless, and was particularly pleased with it, not only because it was the cheapest thing in Paris at five cents, but because, as he said himself, it contained an amount of enthusiasm not usually available at any price.
The Senator thought, as we entered the elevator at the first story, that the accommodation compared very well indeed with anything in his experience.