As the Senator said, a banquet hall did not then suggest a Fifth Avenue hairdresser's saloon.

But now the Genoese merchant-princes would find that their state had lost its identity in machine made imitations, and that it would be more distinguished to be poor, since poverty is never counterfeited.

But poppa declined to go as far as that.
Alessandro, as we drove round and up the winding roads that take one to the top of Genoa--the hotels and the palaces and the churches are mostly at the bottom--was full of joyous and rapid information.

Especially did he continue to be communicative on the subject of Christopher Columbus, and if we are not now assured of the school that discoverer attended in his youth, and the altar rails before which he took the first communion of his early manhood, and the occupation of his wife's parents, and many other matters concerning him, it is the fault of history and not that of Alessandro Bebbini.

After a cathedral and a palace and a long drive, this was bound to have its effect, and I very soon saw resentment in the demeanour of both my parents.