If he has to miss one, he had better give up his visit to the Crystal Palace, Stratford-upon-Avon, Abbottsford, or even the House of Lords, or Windsor itself.

Neither is so perfectly and exclusively English as the mistress of "The Brindled Cow," in one of the rural counties of the kingdom.
It would be necessary to coin a new word if one were sought to contain and convey the distinctive characteristic of inn-life in England.

Perhaps _homefulness_ would do this best, as it would more fully than any other term describe the coziness, quiet, and comfort to be enjoyed at these places of entertainment.

Not one in a hundred of them ever heard the sound of the hotel-going bell, as we hear it in America.

You are not thundered up or down by a vociferous gong.