American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Julian Street
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We listened attentively to Bryan while he told how the daughter of Governor Swan had come to attend a ball at Hampton, and how she had died in the four-post bed in that old shadowy guest room, and of how, since then, she had been seen from time to time. "They's several people say they saw her," he finished. "She comes out and combs her hair in front of the long mirror." However, as we drove back to Baltimore that evening, we repeatedly assured one another that we did not believe in ghosts. CHAPTER IX ARE WE STANDARDIZED? Almost all modern European critics of the United States agree in complaining that our telephones and sleeping cars are objectionable, and that we are "standardized" in everything. Their criticism of the telephone seems to be that the state of perfection to which it has been brought in this country causes it to be widely used, while their disapproval of our sleeping cars is invariably based on the assumption that they have no compartments--which is not the fact, since most of the great transcontinental railroads do run compartment cars, and much better ones than the best _wagons lits_, and since, also, all our sleeping cars have drawing-rooms which are incomparably better than the |
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