...not the same, so nearly similar to that of the preceding evening, that our spoiled beauty began i3 to sit uneasily in her chair, as each anticipated...the " national slowness" of the English at table. When it was over, Mr. Warner said that he would trust the business of the office for a few hours to...

...the same, so nearly similar to that of the preceding evening, that our spoiled beauty began i 3 • to sit uneasily in her chair, as each anticipated...the " national slowness" of the English at table. When it was over, Mr, Warner said that he would trust the business of the office for a few hours to...

...fast. Breakfast at the Warner house in Rochester, a more civilized place than most in this novel, does not "last long; though, as it occupied twenty minutes,...avoided, from the 'national slowness' of the English at table."45 At Washington, where the traveling English party goes near the end of its ordeals in the...