A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men And Things
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" I don't want to dine ; I should like to have a cup of tea." He frowned a little more, and deigned to hear my request to the end. " Can I ? " I repeated. He spoke not ; he brought his eyebrows still lower down, and solemnly shook his head. "Can't I really?" I continued. At last he spoke. " You can," quoth he, " for a dollar." And, taking the bill of fare in his hands, without wasting any more of his precious utterances, he pointed out to me : " Each meal one dollar." The argument was unanswera...ble. I went back to my own car, resumed my seat, and betook myself to reflection. What I cannot, for the life of me, understand is why, in a train which has a dining car and a kitchen, a man cannot be served with a cup of tea, unless he pays the price of a dinner for it, and this notwithstanding "well, what do you want?' 86 A FRENCHMAN IN AMERICA. the fact of his having paid five dollars extra to enjoy the extra luxury of this famous vestibule train. After all, this is one out of the many illustrations one could give to show that whatever Jonathan is, he is not the master in his own house.
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