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He finally repented his smartness, the better
elements of his nature prevailed, and he became
sufficiently ashamed of what he had done to give
up the key and leave the house. We met him
again, travelled with him for some distance, and
found him in his general conduct a well-conducted,
amiable youth. He is not the first American I
have met who has made himself appear far worse
than he really is by this miserably misdirected
ambition to be “smart.” The whole nation is
similarly suffering. The Americans are far better
than they appear on the outside, and will never
be justly appreciated as a nation until public
opinion in the States becomes sufficiently
wholesome to treat all manifestations of smartness as
vulgar and shameful dishonesty. Judging from
the moral dignity of the majority of those I have
met in travelling, I suspect that this desirable
revolution of public opinion is rapidly progressing.
As soon as our hostess had recovered from the
confusion of this invasion she gave us the best
rooms at her disposal. During the whole of our
stay she was most attentive. She achieved some
great triumphs in the matter of cookery; supplied
us with quite a sumptuous table, considering the
latitude. She is a semi-French woman, a Roman
Catholic, placed in the hotel by the Catholic
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