I don't know what put such an idea into his head, unless it was some advertisement that he saw in one of the American papers that are published here.
There are families here who receive American and English people to live with them, under the pretence of teaching them French.

You may imagine what people they are--I mean the families themselves.

But the Americans who choose this peculiar manner of seeing Paris must be actually just as bad.

Mother and I were horrified, and declared that main force should not remove us from the hotel.

But father has a way of arriving at his ends which is more efficient than violence.