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France one does get food at the railway stations, and at St. Michael
the breakfast was unexceptional.
Our two friends seated themselves near to the American ladies, and
were, of course, thanked for their politeness. American women are
taught by the habits of their country to think that men should give way
to them more absolutely than is in accordance with the practices of
life in Europe. A seat in a public conveyance in the States, when
merely occupied by a man, used to be regarded by any woman as being at
her service as completely as though it were vacant. One woman
indicating a place to another would point with equal freedom to a man
or a space. It is said that this is a little altered now, and that
European views on this subject are spreading themselves. Our two
ladies, however, who were pretty, clever-looking, and attractive even
after the night's journey, were manifestly more impressed with the
villainy of the French officials than they were with the kindness of
their English neighbours.


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