ten sufficed my wedded lovers, or then, when there was
absolutely nothing to engage them, they fell back upon the story of
their love, which they were never tired of hearing as they severally
knew it. Let it not be a reproach to human nature or to me if I say
that there was something in the comfort of having well dined which now
touched the springs of sentiment with magical effect, and that they had
never so rejoiced in these tender reminiscences.

They had planned to stop over at Rochester till the morrow, that they
might arrive at Niagara by daylight, and at Utica they had suddenly
resolved to make the rest of the day's journey in a drawing-room car.
The change gave them an added reason for content; and they realized how
much they had previously sacrificed to the idea of travelling in the
most American manner, without achieving it after all, for this seemed
a touch of Americanism beyond the old-fashioned car. They reclined in
luxury upon the easy-cushioned, revolving chairs; they surveyed with
infinite satisfaction the elegance of the flying-parlor in which they
sat, or turned their contented regard through the broad plate-glass
windows upon the landscape without. They said that none but Americans or
enchanted princes in the "Arabian Nights" ever travelled in such state;
and when the stewards of the car came round successively with tropical
fruits, ice-creams, and claret-punches, they felt a heightened assurance
that they were either enchanted princes--or Americans. There were more
ladies and more fashion than in the other cars; and prettily dressed
children played about on the carpet; but the general appearance of the
passengers hardly suggested greater wealth than elsewhere; and they were
plainly in that car because they were of the American race, which finds
nothing too good for it that its money can buy.

V. THE ENCHANTED CITY, AND BEYOND.

They knew none of the hotels in Rochester, and they had chosen a certain
one in reliance upon their handbook. When they named it, there stepped
forth a porter of an incredibly cordial and pleasant countenance, who
took their travelling-bags, and led them to the omnibus. As they were
his only passengers, the porter got inside with them, and seeing their
interest in the streets through which they rode, he descanted in a
strain of cheerful pride upon the city's prosperity and character, and
gave the names of the people who lived in the finer houses, just as if
it had been