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my Portuguese friend alone in this mania for good hotels. I 
have seen English tourists, and I am sorry to say some Amer 
icans, made perfectly miserable by being compelled to pass 
the night in a respectable country inn, where the accommo¬ 
dations were not so good as those of the Parisian hotels. 
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