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... Philadelphia . ( A station , it must be remembered , is a " depôt " in the States . ) We had heard a great deal about the marvellous luxury and convenience of American trains , and had been given to understand that a railway journey in ...
... Philadelphia . ( A station , it must be remembered , is a " depôt " in the States . ) We had heard a great deal about the marvellous luxury and convenience of American trains , and had been given to understand that a railway journey in ...
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... Philadelphia at an express pace of twenty - five to thirty miles an hour , saddened at intervals by the funereal tolling of the bell . Some time before arriving , we were accosted by a gentle- man , who saw that we were strangers and ...
... Philadelphia at an express pace of twenty - five to thirty miles an hour , saddened at intervals by the funereal tolling of the bell . Some time before arriving , we were accosted by a gentle- man , who saw that we were strangers and ...
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... very rough and uneven . And now , our first railway journey having brought us to the Continental Hotel , Philadelphia , we pass on to the wonders of the Quaker City . CHAPTER V. THE QUAKER CITY . THE Continental Hotel , 56 THE OTHER SIDE .
... very rough and uneven . And now , our first railway journey having brought us to the Continental Hotel , Philadelphia , we pass on to the wonders of the Quaker City . CHAPTER V. THE QUAKER CITY . THE Continental Hotel , 56 THE OTHER SIDE .
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... Philadelphia south and westward we always had the negro servitor . In majesty of bearing the coloured waiter comes short of his white brother ; but he more than makes up for it in expression . The component parts of a black waiter are a ...
... Philadelphia south and westward we always had the negro servitor . In majesty of bearing the coloured waiter comes short of his white brother ; but he more than makes up for it in expression . The component parts of a black waiter are a ...
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... Philadelphia was a Sunday ; and we were surprised to find a pantomime being performed in a theatre close beside the hotel . And this in the very heart of the Quaker City , with its reputed jealousy for Sunday observance and re- ligious ...
... Philadelphia was a Sunday ; and we were surprised to find a pantomime being performed in a theatre close beside the hotel . And this in the very heart of the Quaker City , with its reputed jealousy for Sunday observance and re- ligious ...
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