[The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Haunted Hotel CHAPTER XV 3/9
Why should we not meet again? This is the autumn time of the year; we are most of us leaving home for the holidays.
What do you say (if you have no engagements that will prevent it) to joining our young married friends before the close of their tour, and renewing the social success of this delightful breakfast by another festival in honour of the honeymoon? The bride and bridegroom are going to Germany and the Tyrol, on their way to Italy.
I propose that we allow them a month to themselves, and that we arrange to meet them afterwards in the North of Italy--say at Venice." 'This proposal was received with great applause, which was changed into shouts of laughter by no less a person than my dear old nurse.
The moment Mr.Westwick pronounced the word "Venice," she started up among the servants at the lower end of the room, and called out at the top of her voice, "Go to our hotel, ladies and gentlemen! We get six per cent.
on our money already; and if you will only crowd the place and call for the best of everything, it will be ten per cent.
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