They were shown to two small chambers, well up in the air, for the hotel seemed to be as full as the clerk had suggested that it was.

The blockade business made the town and the hotel very lively.
The newly arrived guests did not waste any time in their rooms, but entered at once upon the work of their mission.

On the piazza they halted to size up the other visitors at the hotel.

From this high point of view they could see the harbor, crowded with vessels..