The whole party awoke to that fact at last.

Children are not actors.

We never had experienced anything like this journey, and how could we help being surprised and delighted?
When we drove into Albany, the first large city we had ever visited, we exclaimed, "Why, it's general training, here!" We had acquired our ideas of crowds from our country militia reviews.

Fortunately, there was no pictorial wall paper in the old City Hotel.

But the decree had gone forth that, on the remainder of the journey, our meals would be served in a private room, with Peter to wait on us.